How to disable or enable homepage setting in Internet Explorer
sometimes you might accidently get spyware installed on your computer and it locked your IE homepage to somewhere else. Or may be you will be sharing your computer with your son or kids where they like to modify your homepage setting. You can lock your homepage and make it uneditable. To lock or unlock the homepage, simply follow the steps below:-
- Click Start => Run type regedit and click OK.
- Goto HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Control Panel
- Right Click at the empty place of right panel, select New => Dword value
- Name it HomePage
- Double click on the HomePage and enter 1 or 0 (1 = lock homepage, 0 = unlock homepage) as the value
- Next, Go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Control Panel
- Right Click at the empty place of right panel, select New => Dword value
- Name it HomePage
- Double click on the HomePage and enter 1 or 0 (1 = lock homepage, 0 = unlock homepage) as the value
Once you finish all the steps above, close all your Internet Explorer and re launch it again. You will see the Home Page will be set according to your setting.
Note: If any of the key (example of key: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Internet Explorer) do not exists, you need to create them. To create key, just right click on the Parent Key and choose New => Key.
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Posted at August 18th, 2006 by chua
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December 25th, 2006 at 10:49 pm
thanks a lot
good
thanks again
January 23rd, 2007 at 11:34 pm
That was really helpful
April 15th, 2007 at 7:05 pm
good
May 6th, 2007 at 11:06 am
Do you know how to ban a page using IE? I’m not talking buot a pop-up, but a site … any idea?
September 28th, 2007 at 7:36 pm
hi,
i tryed that but HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Policies\Microsoft\ there is no option for internet explorer… its showing systemcertificates,windows thats all… even in windows there is no interne explorer help me to disable the home page settngs
March 11th, 2008 at 1:45 pm
You can try it under HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Control Panel if you don’t find it under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE.
Cool hack! I liked it a lot
May 30th, 2009 at 4:06 pm
it helps me alot……….thanks for the excellent job
June 1st, 2009 at 4:44 pm
Hi There,
I’ve selecetd Run then typed regedit and clicked OK.
But then apart from the small blue band at the bottom of the PC disapearing, nothing seems to happen except that this particular web page (ie techiecorner.com/8/how-to-disable-or-enable-homepage-setting-in-internet-explorer/) now gets added to my hompage options also!
Is there supposed to be a clear option that comes up on screen for “HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Control Panel” or am I supposed to look this next step up somwhere and if so where?
Apologies if that seems like a silly question.
Hope that’s clear, many thanks for your help in advance
June 5th, 2009 at 10:24 am
once u put zero in the HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Control Panel => HomePage, you should be able to change your homepage according to your choice.
June 7th, 2009 at 12:57 pm
when i open IE8, my home tab opens “www.microsoft.com/windows/internet-explorer/default.aspx” instead of my elected home page, how can i change this and have IE8 open my elected homepage instead? thanks
August 22nd, 2009 at 9:20 am
Thanks a lot.. Am not a software guy.. This simple explanation helped me a lot.. Thank you.