Fuzz

Probably an easy one but I think i had too much Samsong (Thai rum) last night and the brain just aint working today.
It's my bro's HP laptop and I just wanted to get rid of the HP home page for him.

Cheers

Andy

Granby

iTrader: (5)

In IE go to "tools / internet options / general" and you will see the option to change your home page

Fuzz

All very well if HP doesn't put it back after you click ok... hence my brain seizure

Andy

Granby

iTrader: (5)

Don't click OK click Apply

Fuzz

Either way that ain't the fix.

Andy

Ian Cook

Try this

In Regedit, navigate to this key:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Inte rnet 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\Curr entVersion\Policies\Explorer] - DWORD "NoSetHomePage"=dword:00000001

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Inte rnet Explorer\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.

Fuzz

Cheers Ian, none of the registry entries existed except...


HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main

Found what I needed in there.

Andy

Ian Cook

cool

Fuzz

but it still reset it to hp.com after reboot.

Not to worry, I'm 6000 miles away from the problem now so can't fix it anyway.


Andy