re: 'How do I stop Internet Explorer from loading a "home page" when it starts?'
Tuesday, May 11, 2004 at 9:25 am
Windows Me Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Kiwi
(2108 messages posted)
Sometimes I forget to ask this, and it's something a few people still try to ignore,
to their own detriment, and it's why the modern PC on/off switches don't just power
down right away without keeping it pressed in for ten seconds. "How are you exiting
from IE?"
A great many programs wait until a normal exit is performed before saving any changes.
If you were to press and hold the power button down as your usual manner of quitting
Windows because it "Shuts Down Too Slowly", then of course the change of home page
was never recorded.
I never liked IE. And I only use it in emergencies, or with "Live Update" sites
that insist upon it. But I do know that Mozilla, which is the browser that I do
use, doesn't save that sort of thing until you exit it in a normal manner. For all
I know, that may NOT even include a "forced exit" when Windows itself tells Mozilla
to close. IE may want a separate exit of its own, if it was like Mozilla seems to
be in that regard.
.
Kiwi
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On Tuesday, May 11, 2004 at 5:35 am, JohnD wrote:
>I have a question about How
>do I stop Internet Explorer from loading a "home page" when it starts?:
>
>Although I followed the instructions, and set my home page to "blank", every time
>I start Internet Explorer, it resets my home page to "http://www.msn.com/"
>
>My lavasoft adaware identifies that two potential browser hijackers has appeared,
>and tells me they are
>POSSIBLE BROWSER HIJACK ATTEMPT
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>obj[0]=RegData : Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main
>
>obj[1]=RegData : .Default\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main
>
>This happens even if I am not connected to the net, so I surmise that one of the
>Windows Updates I have recently installed has put this thing in. It has only ben
>happening a few days, after I had a hard drive crash, reinstalled Windows ME from
>disk, and ran Windows Update repeatedly.
>
>
>Every time I remove them with Adaware, Internet Explorer changes the home page again,
>and the two hijacker reappear next time I start it. I have tried setting the "msn.com"
>to Always Block Cookies and made it a Restricted Site, but that hasn't helped.
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