Enabling Homepage Settings

[JULIUS ORAYO]

I would like to change the default homepage for my IE but the buttons are disabled. How do i enable them? Thanks in advance. Orayo

[moonacre]

I've heard some dodgy websites do this ;-) You have to edit your registry - back up first!!!!! One of the customizations they might make is to disable the ability to change the home page, so that you are forced to use their home page. You can re-enable this by making a small change in the Windows registry. In Regedit, navigate to this key: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Control Panel In the right-hand pane, right-click the "HomePage" value, then select Modify. Change it to: 00 00 00 00 Also change either or these to zero 0 instead of 1 if present: [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer] - DWORD "NoSetHomePage"=dword:00000001 [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\InternetExplorer\Restrictions] - DWORD "NoSetHomePage"=dword:00000001 If you don't have this key, browse to: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main and in the right hand pane, double click "Local Page" and set equal to "C:\WINDOWS\System\blank.htm" (no quotes) which will hopefully set your Home Page to blank and then allow you to subsequently modify it using Internet Options. Exit regedit and reboot. When you reboot, you should be able to change the home page again. Some pages will also download a program which keeps changing it back. Go to Start | Run and type: msconfig and press or click OK. Go to the Startup tab. See if you can identify any suspicious programs. If you can, uncheck it, If you can't, change the home page to what you want and then uncheck one and then reboot. Try IE. If the Web page changed, change it back and then try msconfig again, rechecking the last one and unchecking the next. Keep doing this until you find the culprit.