what happened to my old home page! hate this one?

Answer 1

Just go to tools, internet options, and change back to the old one!

Answer 2

easy, you just clicked yes on pop up for one of the links, the message was *do you want to make this web page as a home page*. but dont worry solution is to click on tools at your internet page, than internet options, on general at the top you will see Home page, highlight than change to what ever web adress you like, than click OK at the botom.
I wish is the right answer for you

Answer 3

the old yahoo home page no longer exists. you better get used to the new beta email account because the old one is about to disappear soon.

Answer 4

Hard to judge from question alone, if it happens on its own in my opinion too, mike’s (poster above) hijack theory is strong possibility.
TO remove malware follow instruction from this page:

http://forum.tweakxp.com/forum/Topic4303-29-1.aspx

To prevent having your home page be change behind your back in future you could download and install those two free anty-spawares:

http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/spywareguard.html
http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/spywareblaster.html

..or even better switch to Fire Fox and block script:

http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/switch.html
https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/722/

Answer 5

youve probably been hijacked or you have adware/spyware on your computer get ad-aware SE and spy bot search and destroy and use that see if there is any difference! Good Luck to you!

Answer 6

Depends on what and who's computer you are using. If this is your computer then your home page has been hijacked and you need to first get it back and then make sure it stays back by doing a few things. First browse to the page you want to set as your home page, then go into your browser and click on Tools, then select Internet Options. On the General Tab click "Use Current" and then click "OK", it is set.

Now to keep it there, you need to make sure you have a good Internet Security Suite or if you are short on funding, go and compile a few free security programs to do this job. You can go use a free version called AVG, by going to http://www.avg.com

If you can afford a security suite get Panda as it really is the best out there right now and with things as they are with evil little buggers who have nothing better to do than harrass good folks like us and ruin our computers, we need all the help we can get. Right now Panda actually is giving three licenses for the purchase of one program. Buy the full Security Suite, Panda Internet Secutity 2007 Platinum, which gets you 24/7 free tech support year round. This suite has everything you could possibly need in a security suite, even an employee, parental content filter if you need it, no extra cost at all. I have been using this program every since Norton failed me and sent me a mega virus which killed my brand new three thousand dollar Dell desktop computer only five weeks after I purchased it. They say the Live Update broke, but this was only after I refused to purchase their help desk and isn't it odd that I received it the day after and I only had a computer five weeks, plus viruses that size are always on the news. Anyway, sorry to get into a rant about my experiance, but it still upsets me to think such a huge corperation would do such a low handed thing. Both Dell technician's and the store clerk where I bought my new Panda solution told me Norton does this and that while McAfee hasn't been known to do this, they are often targeted by crackers as crackers like to go after the largest established security suites as a "target" to show their skills at getting past the big boys of the industry. How sad they can't find something better to do.

Now, if you can't buy a suite try AVG, and go to the Microsoft webiste and download and install their free Windows Defender program which is a great spyware program which keeps your home page and ohter settings free from being changed by hostile and evil creatures on the web. I don't know much about AVG other than many people who use the free version think it is the best free version on the market today. Also, spysweeper, and Rebroot is good too, I think those cost money though.

You can go here: http://www.cnet.com/downloads

and look for security software and you will find free and low cost versions. It is a great place to start looking. Remember that you can only have one firewall and one virus program installed on your system at a time. Plus, when you need to remove them you will need a special removal tool as these types of programs have to embed deeply into the OS in order to do its job. To provide security the program must reach deep into the OS, so the normal removal program Add/Remove just does not work. Getting the special tools can be difficult though as most of these venders do not like to lose business, which is why they make it so hard to remove their products. You may have to actually call them on the phone and insist they send you the proper link via e-mail to remove it off your system. If you go with McAfee you can use the web chat and the techs there are great about giving you the right tool. McAfee actually uses two tools for each program one for those intending to re-install the program after doing some maintainance work and one for a full removal of the program. It is always best to do a full removal even when doing something which requires removal of security and then putting it back. This way you don't get your registry all gunked up with grud. It is just best to fully remove these types of software and then put it back in a fresh install if that is what you want. So always just ask for the full removal tool, not the partial tool. The best method of getting it is just telling them you want to completely remove the program so give you the right tool to do it.

I am not trying to scare you, I just think consumers need to be fully aware of what they need to do to take proper care of their costly systems. This is the right way to do that. It is not a big deal, except when software venders won't tell consumers the proper information for working with their software. Just know that for both the firewall and the anti-virus you will need a special removal tool to remove it completely and if you don't remove it completely the remnents will cause a lot of grief on your system by interferring with any new security software program you install.

Now, if this is not your comptuer, talk to the owner or administrator of the computer. A new program has been put out by Microsoft called the "Shared computer toolkit" and it is for schools, libraries, hotspots and all publicly shared computer spots. It locks down the comptuer and the toolkit administrator has the capabilities of putting a particular home page on the account, locking down the browser, stopping any changes to the hard drive and creating an enviroment where no user can ever make any changes to the user account, and anything done duing one users use will be wiped out at the next reboot. This is a great tool but one in which many users will need to adjust. It is for the safely of all users and of the computer owner(s), and the institution which is hosting the public comptuer. Nobody will be able to track the footprints of other users, and information the user accidently left behind will not be left for others to get ahold of.

So, while this is a great toolkit it is going to be met with a lot of hositity by many users who are use to things being a certain way. However, it really is a great program and will keep all who use the computer much safer and will also keep the owner or institution safe. It can also strip most program from the account, limit the time on the computer and kick those off who try to stay logged on after time if up, and strip all access to certain features such as the control panel, network places, connection configuration, all user interfaces will be locked down and even files will no longer be savable on these systems. Each user will have to bring a disk to save their work. Which only takes us back to the days when we all had to use floppys to save our work anyway, which was not a huge deal then and won't be now when users get use to this. Flash memory and cds are easier to use than the floppys I had to work with when I was much younger. lol

So, if this is your computer, just reset your home page and make sure you have a good security suite. If it is not your computer then talk to the owner and/or administrator, or the librarian or whomever is running the place if it is a public computer.

Good luck and have a great day, I hope you get this fixed to your satisfaction soon.

Answer 7

you can switch it to anything you want. You might be able to find your old homepage in your "history" file.