IE6 home page keeps defaulting to google/Dell?

Question

IE6 on my wife's new Dell Inspiron laptop keeps defaulting to a Dell homepage sponsored by Google. She want Yahoo to be her homepage and keeps changing it to this in Internet Options but the pseudo Dell homepage keeps coming back

Answer 1

I think sociald is right,
I have just delved into the register of my Dell and i see that the Dell web site is listed as a default site on internet explorer, should everything else fail.
Not spyware just a security issue.

Answer 2

I seriously doubt its a spyware issue. the dell homepage is cached and saved as an offline temp file so its easy to load that.
I would bet that you have some kind of internet security that is set to protect the homepage from being changed. ... norton comes to mind.

Answer 3

Your wife's computer has an adware which is doing that. Run a good anti spyware adware program such as Ad aware or Spy sweeper. Also, try reinstalling IE6, or update it to IE7.

Ad Aware:
http://www.download.com/Ad-Aware-SE-Personal-Edition/3000-8022_4-10399602.html?tag=lst-0-1

Windows Defender:
http://www.download.com/Microsoft-Windows-Defender/3000-12771_4-10598014.html?tag=lst-0-1

Answer 4

There was a version of Zonealarm which prevented a user from changing the default home page.

Answer 5

i also doubt this is a spyware problem i would advise going to tools when ie loads up and down to internet options making sure the homepage is set to the desired. click apply and restart ie. good luck.

Answer 6

On the far right, click on page themes. A box will come up and at the top of the box it says page themes, next to it it says back to classic view. Click that and you're good to go!

Answer 7

What is the exact address of the page it loads up with?

Answer 8

You can get IE7 from microsoft.com.