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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