C'mon, people!! No one knows the answer? Scared to answer ('cause you might be wrooong??!?)? Cat got your tongue? Paid by my ISP not to answer? Too many visions of fireworks dancing in your head? Lots of other stuff?
2006-07-07 22:26:30 · 9 answers · asked by Who Knew? 2 in Computers & Internet ➔ Other - Computers
i would suggest you reboot your computer once and then try again.
This change occurs only if you have downloaded some updates for IE. I assume you are using a home computer and not office computer.
if still having problems try the following
If you still have problems, some ISP's provide a customized version of IE. Some Web pages will also reset your home page and do this. One of the customizations they might make is to disable the ability to change the home page, so that you are forced to use their home page. You can re-enable this by making a small change in the Windows registry.
In Regedit, navigate to this key:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Pol... Explorer\Control Panel
In the right-hand pane, right-click the "HomePage" value, then select Modify. Change it to: 00 00 00 00
Also change either or these to zero 0 instead of 1 if present:
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\M... - DWORD "NoSetHomePage"=dword:00000001
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Po... Explorer\Restrictions] - DWORD "NoSetHomePage"=dword:00000001
If you don't have this key, browse to:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Mic... Explorer\Main
and in the right hand pane, double click "Local Page" and set equal to "C:\WINDOWS\System\blank.htm" (no quotes) which will hopefully set your Home Page to blank and then allow you to subsequently modify it using Internet Options.
Exit regedit and reboot.
When you reboot, you should be able to change the home page again.
Some pages will also download a program which keeps changing it back. Go to Start | Run and type:
msconfig
and press
See if you can identify any suspicious programs. If you can, uncheck it, If you can't, change the home page to what you want and then uncheck one and then reboot. Try IE. If the Web page changed, change it back and then try msconfig again, rechecking the last one and unchecking the next. Keep doing this until you find the culprit.
2006-07-07 22:37:05 · answer #1 · answered by Devil M 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
well first of all when you post a question like this you really should post a link to the original question, so we can find it easier.
I did mange to find your original question, and in there you mentioned the e icon was changed from "Yahoo! to 'runonce.msn. com" this to me would indicate that neither time where you actually calling your browser directly. First you where calling a yahoo macro that then opened your browser, now your calling a msn one that opens your browser.
Try doing this: create a shortcut and have it point to this:
C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\IEXPLORE.EXE
that will open the browser directly, and probably let you keep the homepage (the first page the browser opens) set to what you want it set to.
also for the guys saying msn is not a ISP your halfway correct.
msn does not by itself provide internet access, but I did some searching and found some isps that bundle a special msn service with their connection. This could be seen by some as msn providing the whole service.
2006-07-08 08:55:54 · answer #2 · answered by snowcloud_dreamer 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
1) Didn't notice your question before.
2) Your question was conflicting and the problem described doesn't use technical terms correctly making it confusing. First, ISP RARELY has anything to do with your homepage of your web browser. ISP stands for Internet Service Provider and MSN isn't an ISP, its a website.
I'll attempt to answer how you change your homepage of Internet Explorer now.
2006-07-08 05:36:37 · answer #3 · answered by jorenzealius 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you really paid attention you would notice somebody HAS answered your question, sometimes you must have some patience!
2006-07-08 05:38:56 · answer #4 · answered by Rowdy answers 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
....hey,...
your browser has been hijacked....
run ad-aware,.., the free version ...if you don't have the paid one.
And yes, the website runone or whatever it is is not related to msn at all.
2006-07-08 06:57:42 · answer #5 · answered by msdniso2004 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
maybe if you actually asked a friggen question instead of whining about dumb ****, then we might answer
2006-07-08 05:37:49 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
What is the question?
2006-07-08 05:30:19 · answer #7 · answered by keep_up_w_this 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What is the question?
2006-07-08 05:30:11 · answer #8 · answered by J_DOG 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
maybe we know and just don't want to answer you. Ever think of that? kiddin'
2006-07-08 05:31:38 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋