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how to stop my homepage changing to a yahoo homepage?
after downloading and installing, my homepage keeps changing to the yahoo homepage. i want to stop my browser from going to yahoo. i did the custom install and unchecked everthing, what is next?
i have gone back and manualy typed in my old homepage, and yahoo changes it automatically every time i reopen IE.
sorry folks,,those didnt help, i did those things however johnB was the most help. but i didnt have the those keys in my regedit. so i went to the following...HKE_Current_users\software\internetexploer\main and double clicked the start page and changed it from yahoo.com to mysask.ca...i restarted, and started yahoo, and my home page finally did not change to yahoo,,,so thanks a buch people hopefully this stays this way..on another note i hate that yahoo has the confieration to load its own defaults on my computer, without my consent and premision..
6 Answers
- Anonymous1 decade agoFavorite Answer
IE... Tools... Internet Options... Home Page...
If it doesn't retain changes after restarting IE...
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\Internet 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.
- Anonymous5 years ago
Hi first off, be careful and read the pop up windows. Some sites say, "would u like for xxx to be your home page?" and if you click yes, it changes it. To set your home page to yahoo... go to the yahoo page, click tools, internet options, on the general tab, lok for the home page section and click use current. that should reset yahoo as hour home page. If you have a hijacker program resident on your PC you would need to get rid of that also because it may cause your home page to change again. Delete all malicious software programs (use microsoft's spy ware beta program as a start). You may also want to reset your internet browser to the defaults.
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- 1 decade ago
in IE, Go to Tools menu select Internet Options... and then write the address of the homepage you want
- 1 decade ago
Open Internet explorer click Tools than Internet options in the home page option type whatever website you want it should open to when you open your browser and make sure your clicking Apply and Ok
