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Disabling Changing of Home Page in Internet Explorer
11:34 AM
Vic Ferri
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Question: Is it possible to disable changing the home page in Internet Explorer? My kids keep changing it!
Answer: Yes, with a little reg hack you can make it impossible to change the home page in Internet Explorer. Assuming the kids are not into registry hacking themselves, this will do it.
This works with all Windows versions and on Internet Explorer 5 to 6, at least.
Here's how:
Cllick Start>Run, type regedit and click Ok.
Make your way to this key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Control Panel
Make sure the Control Panel key is selected.
Now right click an empty area in the right hand pane and choose New>Dword value.
Name it HomePage
Then double click it and give it a value of 1.
Next go to this key: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Control Panel
and do the same thing - create a Dword value named HomePage and give it a value of 1.
Exit the registry, close any open pages, and then open IE and try to change the home page. You will find you will not be able to.
To make it changeable again, just change the values to 0.
NOTE: If any of the above keys do not exist, you will have to create them. To do that, simply right click a key and choose New>Key to form a sub key and then name it. Example: say the Control Panel key is missing for this tip with the Internet Explorer key being as far as you can get: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\ In that case, you would just right click the Internet Explorer key and create a new key and name it Control Panel. Your path will now be complete for this tip: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Control Panel
