re: Question about 'How do I stop Internet Explorer from loading a "home page" when it starts?'
Sunday, January 9, 2005 at 3:50 am
Windows Me Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Ravn
(1 messages posted)
Add -nohome to the IE shortcut, works for me :)
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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