Internet Explorer 11....Cant Change Home page

[Computertech101]

I have windows 7 Ultimate 32 bit......custom built pc.....my problem is i cant change my home page when im in windows in IE11......i checked for viruses and spyware...none detected....i tryed to change it in safe mode...it allows me to change it....I reverted back to IE10 and same issue.....im read some place where something in the registry could be locked or deleted preventing me from the change...any ideas on what i could doo...my current home page is msn.com....im tryna change to google or anything else...when i go to change it...1 in 10 tries works......but after i restart the pc...goes back to msn

 

[UsernameIssues]

Welcome to the Seven Forums.

What antivirus app are you using?
Any other security tools installed?

 

[richnrockville]

computertech101, Something tells me that you have two URL's in your browsers hope page space.
Use control panel and check out the internet options. There might be several blank lines in the home page listing with msn at the
bottom where you normally can't see it..

Welcome to the windows 7 forums.

Rich

 

[Computertech101]

Welcome to the Seven Forums.

What antivirus app are you using?
Any other security tools installed?

Im using avast free edition...thats all besides basic windows security

 

[Computertech101]

computertech101, Something tells me that you have two URL's in your browsers hope page space.
Use control panel and check out the internet options. There might be several blank lines in the home page listing with msn at the
bottom where you normally can't see it..

Welcome to the windows 7 forums.

Rich

Thanks...

Can you explain more...in my internet options.....where it says home page...it says MSN.com... i delete it and put in a different site...press apply then ok...then restart explorer...nothing happens...i reinstalled internet explorer..that didnt work....

 

[Computertech101]

im pretty good with the tech stuff..but this has be stoked....i read a few places other people explorer similar issues..and change some settings in the registry........but im hoping its more simple then that...but i dont know why it would be locked and work in safe mode..unless i have a bug that im not aware off

 

[UsernameIssues]

computertech101, Something tells me that you have two URL's in your browsers hope page space.
Use control panel and check out the internet options. There might be several blank lines in the home page listing with msn at the
bottom where you normally can't see it..

Welcome to the windows 7 forums.

Rich

Thanks...

Can you explain more...
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I think that richnrockville is saying that you might have some spaces - like this:





Of course, the word space will not be there - but they might cause the change to not take.

 

[Computertech101]

computertech101, Something tells me that you have two URL's in your browsers hope page space.
Use control panel and check out the internet options. There might be several blank lines in the home page listing with msn at the
bottom where you normally can't see it..

Welcome to the windows 7 forums.

Rich

Thanks...

Can you explain more...
~~~

I think that richnrockville is saying that you might have some spaces - like this:

View attachment 297701

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Of course, the word space will not be there - but they might cause the change to not take.

i have MSN.com on the top like the first image has it.....and i just highlight and retype Google on the top line...as far as spaces....hmmmmm......wouldnt reinstalling IE fix any issues...i never seen something like this before,besides virus or spyware issues

 

[UsernameIssues]

The home pages are stored in the registry.

They should survive any update or downgrade to IE.

Notice in this video of mine that the homepage is set to about:blank



It survives the downgrade from IE10 to IE9 to IE8...

If you cannot scroll the list of homepages - then you don't have spaces hiding another homepage.

 

[UsernameIssues]

Bummer - I could have sworn that the homepages were stored in the registry.

off to chase that rabbit...

edit:
...the computer that I am on uses about:blank as the home page.
(or so I thought)
...searching the registry for about:blank did not find anything
...the Start Page value was set to about:Home
...and yet about:blank appears in the URL as shown in the video
...hmmmm

 

[UsernameIssues]

Here it is:



Before you mess with the registry - manually create a restore point.

 

[Computertech101]

Here it is:

View attachment 297713

Before you mess with the registry - manually create a restore point.

Thanks man.....im gonna try the registry edit first.....if that dont work....which it should...im gonna uninstall every version of IE like you posted in the video.........But my question is...Why would it be locked or changes not taking affect...it is due to a update..or it that common for IE11...

 

[UsernameIssues]

I'm not sure why the changes fail. If I were working on this computer, I would run Process Monitor to see what actions occur (or fail to occur) when the home page info is written to that registry key. I would compare the info to a computer that works as expected.

 

[ThrashZone]

Go to show all add-ons and post some screen shots,

Have you made a new administrator account and try ?
Also click Start and All programs right click Internet explorer and click on Run as administrator and see what happens on the existing account.

 

[Computertech101]

Here it is:

View attachment 297713

Before you mess with the registry - manually create a restore point.

i tryed to manually edit the registry and...still no go....im able to input a different URL....in the registry data box....but if i double click on that start page in the registry again to see if my URL i inputed stayed...it reverted back to MSN.com...so at this point...if editing the registry didnt work,might be something more going on....thats preventing this change

 

[Computertech101]

I'm not sure why the changes fail. If I were working on this computer, I would run Process Monitor to see what actions occur (or fail to occur) when the home page info is written to that registry key. I would compare the info to a computer that works as expected.

ok thanks...yea im never experience something like this before....its weird...something aint working correctly...idk if its the software or the Operating system...i might just just to a repair on the OS...

 

[UsernameIssues]

You could try to find the app that is changing the value back via clean boot:
http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorial...ation-conflicts-performing-clean-startup.html

 

[Computertech101]

You could try to find the app that is changing the value back via clean boot:
http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorial...ation-conflicts-performing-clean-startup.html

i looked into it....but if im able to change the home page in safe mode and not in regular mode...that means..something is not working or blocking the change in regular mode...i dont know how long this been going on for....the other day i just felot like changing the home page and thats when i noticed it...im about to reinstall the system files and upgrade to 64 bit any how.....

 

[UsernameIssues]

You could try to find the app that is changing the value back via clean boot:
http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorial...ation-conflicts-performing-clean-startup.html

i looked into it....but if im able to change the home page in safe mode and not in regular mode...that means..something is not working or blocking the change in regular mode...i dont know how long this been going on for....the other day i just felot like changing the home page and thats when i noticed it...im about to reinstall the system files and upgrade to 64 bit any how.....

The clean boot tutorial can help you find the app causing the issue, You will probably re-install the offending app after the new OS build, so we can do the clean boot steps then

 

[Jacee]

Have you followed this tutorial? http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorial...lorer-home-page-specify-prevent-changing.html