IE6 is hijacking me to MSN

[Walter Donavan]

I use a blank home page (about:blank), but occasionally when I launch IE6 it
tries to take me to MSN. It doesn't do it all the time.

I click the Stop button and set it back to about:blank, but it's annoying.

Why is it doing this? (I don't really care.) How do I stop it? (I do really
care.)

Thanks.

 

[Donald McDaniel]

I use a blank home page (about:blank), but occasionally when I launch
IE6 it tries to take me to MSN. It doesn't do it all the time.

I click the Stop button and set it back to about:blank, but it's
annoying.

Why is it doing this? (I don't really care.) How do I stop it? (I do
really care.)

Thanks.

1) Open regedit
2) Click on "Edit|Find" and enter "start page" as the search text
3) Find the entry in the right-hand column which reads "Start page".
4) Right-click on "Start page"
5) Choose "Modify" from the popup menu
6) Delete the URL which points to MSN (or put an URL to the start page of
your choice in its place). This URL must point to a legitimate website, or
it must be empty. Just delete or replace the contents of the key. Do not
delete the key itself. The key expects a string value (such as
http://www.myhomepage.com) (no quotes)
7) Find (using <F3>) all other instances of "start page" and delete all
URLs pointing to the MSN home page or replace them with the URL of your
choice

 

[Walter Donavan]

I found one string that pointed to a microsoft.com redirect, albeit not
directly to MSN. I replaced that with about:blank.

The others used those indecipherable multi-letter-multi-number values and I
left them alone.

I'll post again if the error recurs.

Many thanks.

 

[Robert Aldwinckle]

indecipherable multi-letter-multi-number values

Hexadecimal values you mean? If they aren't in strings
(e.g. Type is REG_BINARY) you might be able to see their interpreted
equivalents by pressing Enter and reading in the right-hand column
of the Edit window's Value data: pane.


HTH

Robert Aldwinckle