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Changing the default home page setting

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by rom2001

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I recently opened a website using Internet Explorer v.5 and found out later on that it changed my default home page setting. When I tried to change the setting in the "Internet Options", the address box cannot be altered ( gray text of the website Iopened) and the buttons (use default, use blank..) disabled. How can I change it to its original format/settings?

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by quebombones

Th?ts quite common
very simple steps..
Form the ISS admin console
1.- remove the new web site (this will not delete any files from your hdd)
2.- Remove the site you wish to maki it work and recreate it again. This process will create and place the default page and all it's link backu to the site you need

by j.wallace

Hi - do you know about REGEDIT? Neat program. Go to the Run option on your Start Menu and run "regedit". Then, navigate down to ... HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main

Look for keys called Local Page and Start Page. Maybe you'll need to add them back in.

On my system (NT 4), Local Page has the value "C:\WINDOWS\System32\blank.htm" and
Start Page has the value "about:blank". When the home page setting is changed in IE, it also changes the Start Page value in the Windows Registry.

Save the changes and you should be good to go. I hope. 8-)

- Rick -

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