I have a question about How do I stop Internet Explorer from loading a "home page" when it starts?:

We are using a home network. Both computers have Win98SE on them. I want to change my home page. When I go to control panel, internet options the home page is grey and will not let me change it. When I click tools, internet options (from internet explorer) I get a message "This operation has been cancelled due to restrictions in effect on this computer. Please contact your system administrator." I never had this problem until I made MSN my home page. Do you have any suggestions? Thank you in advance for your help.

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do u have "spaybot S&D"?? if u do u may have checked the boxes under"immunize" to prevent from changing ur home page.....open spybot and got to"Immunize" scroll down and uncheck "Lock IE start page settings againts user changes" and that will allow u to change your home page..............if u are no running "spybot" .....then when ur on ur desktop right click ur "internet Icon" and then chose properties and that will allow u 2 chsnge it 2.........hope it helps..........im gone.......


On Monday, February 2, 2004 at 7:30 pm, Melanie wrote:
>I have a question about How
>do I stop Internet Explorer from loading a "home page" when it starts?:

>We are using a home network. Both computers have Win98SE on them. I want to change
>my home page. When I go to control panel, internet options the home page is grey
>and will not let me change it. When I click tools, internet options (from internet
>explorer) I get a message "This operation has been cancelled due to restrictions
>in effect on this computer. Please contact your system administrator." I never had
>this problem until I made MSN my home page. Do you have any suggestions? Thank you
>in advance for your help.
>

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Use the following, which is what Spybot does to lock it and see if there is a 1 and 
change it to 0.

Backup the registry and/or export the following keys: 
go to Start>Run, type regedit. Navigate to: 
HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\ 
Right-click on the Internet Explorer key, choose new>Key, name it Control Panel. 
Right-click on the Control Panel, chose new>DWORD value, name it Homepage. Right-click 
on Homepage, choose modify and type in the number 1. 

This should lock your home page, so no other web site can change it. 






On Monday, February 2, 2004 at 7:30 pm, Melanie wrote:
>I have a question about How 
>do I stop Internet Explorer from loading a "home page" when it starts?:

>We are using a home network. Both computers have Win98SE on them. I want to change 
>my home page. When I go to control panel, internet options the home page is grey 
>and will not let me change it.  When I click tools, internet options (from internet 
>explorer) I get a message "This operation has been cancelled due to restrictions 
>in effect on this computer. Please contact your system administrator." I never had 
>this problem until I made MSN my home page. Do you have any suggestions? Thank you 
>in advance for your help.
>

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I should have deleted the part that no web page can change it as it can.  This only 
stops somebody on your computer from changing it.





On Tuesday, February 3, 2004 at 6:21 am, Deke wrote:
>
>Use the following, which is what Spybot does to lock it and see if there is a 1 
and 
>change it to 0.
>
>Backup the registry and/or export the following keys: 
>go to Start>Run, type regedit. Navigate to: 
>HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\ 
>Right-click on the Internet Explorer key, choose new>Key, name it Control Panel. 
>Right-click on the Control Panel, chose new>DWORD value, name it Homepage. Right-click 
>on Homepage, choose modify and type in the number 1. 
>
>This should lock your home page, so no other web site can change it. 
>
>



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Thank you! We do have Spybot S&D on the computers. I will follow your instructions and get it fixed. Again I thank you for your help.


On Monday, February 2, 2004 at 9:04 pm, x3_bps_sl33py_bps_x3 wrote:
>do u have "spaybot S&D"?? if u do u may have checked the boxes under"immunize" to
>prevent from changing ur home page.....open spybot and got to"Immunize" scroll down
>and uncheck "Lock IE start page settings againts user changes" and that will allow
>u to change your home page..............if u are no running "spybot" .....then when
>ur on ur desktop right click ur "internet Icon" and then chose properties and that
>will allow u 2 chsnge it 2.........hope it helps..........im gone.......
>
>

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Thank you so much. It worked great.


On Tuesday, February 3, 2004 at 6:23 am, Deke wrote:

>
>I should have deleted the part that no web page can change it as it can.  This only 
>stops somebody on your computer from changing it.
>

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Spybot has been great, but I noticed this problem within a few days. Your post is helping me. I should inform spybot of the problem.

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I should have mentioned, I'm using XP and the problem is common to all operating systems.


On Tuesday, May 4, 2004 at 10:55 am, Keith D Hersey wrote:
>
>Spybot has been great, but I noticed this problem within a few days. Your post is
>helping me. I should inform spybot of the problem. I should have mentioned, I'm using XP and the problem is common to all operating systems.

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hello ma'am, if you have a regedit.exe, go to the start menu and choose run option then type regedit and hit enter key. look for this keys: hkey_current_user\software\Policies\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Control Panel under control panel you must see a value name "HomePage" w/o the quotes with a value of 1. change the value 1 to 0 to unlock your internet address.


On Monday, February 2, 2004 at 7:30 pm, Melanie wrote:
>I have a question about How
>do I stop Internet Explorer from loading a "home page" when it starts?:

>We are using a home network. Both computers have Win98SE on them. I want to change
>my home page. When I go to control panel, internet options the home page is grey
>and will not let me change it. When I click tools, internet options (from internet
>explorer) I get a message "This operation has been cancelled due to restrictions
>in effect on this computer. Please contact your system administrator." I never had
>this problem until I made MSN my home page. Do you have any suggestions? Thank you
>in advance for your help.
>

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