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Home Page in IE locked or choose your own

Some suppliers we won’t mention names lock you home page to theirs and nobody wants to be dictated to Therefore I am happy to kick this practice in the B**.

S adly it is another trip to the Registry.

Before you start remember this is dangerous stuff and make a System Restore point before starting

Also double check everything that you do before doing it.

Also make a back‐up of the Registry as follows:‐

Click theStart Menu.> Go to Run

Type in the box type Regedit Press.Enter

Click the ʺRegistryʺ (or ʺFileʺ) menu > Click ʺExport Registry File...ʺ

Now be careful to choose an easy to remember location in which to save the file, and an easy to remember name.

At the bottom of that box, under Export Range, there are 2 buttons,

Click the one that says ʺAllʺ, and then click Save

Y ou will be sorry if you do not take the time to do the above if something goes dreadfully wrong

Go to Start >Run in the box type > Regedit

Close the files by clicking on the negatives “‐“ to make them positives “ + “

Go to :‐

HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/Policies/Microsoft/Internet Explorer/ControlPanel

__**Note :‐**__ If you do not have the last two entries you are not locked out of changing.

There is a value labelled Home Page in the Control Panel Key

If it is set to “ 1 “ You need to change it to “ 0 “ zero now Exit Registry

Next time you launch Internet Explorer you will be able to modify the home page If you’d like a faster loading you have a little typing to do that is all :

Right‐click anywhere on Desktop

Choose New > Shortcut Click Browse

Scroll to :‐ C:\Program Files \Internet Explorer

Then iexplore.exe

Click on it to select and press End, to arrive at the end of the string

Now first press Spacebar then type “‐nohome”

When done after exe there should be a space and the –nohome

Click Next give the shortcut a name and click Finish

Now whenever you Double click on the shortcut you will probably be surprised at how quickly

Internet Explorer loads, And remember you can drag this shortcut onto the Taskbar if you wish, and hide all the Desktop Icons.