[WEB4LIB] Resetting the Home Page

[Donna Schumann]

We ran into that problem and solved it by using regedt32 to set the HKEY
Local User|Software|Microsoft|Internet Explorer|Main key and all subkeys
to read-only. I'm writing this from home, so please excuse me if I've
misremembered the exact registry setting.

HTH Donna

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Donna Schumann                  Application System Specialist 
Timberland Regional Library     360-704-4542 FAX: 360-586-6838 
Olympia, Washington             schumann at timberland.lib.wa.us 

On Thu, 24 Feb 2000, Andrew Mutch wrote:

> I've run across another security issue with Internet Explorer.  Some sites,
> such as Excite, provide you the option of resetting your browser's home page
> to their site.  If you grant the site permission to do so, it will replace
> your default with their address.  This is fine and dandy for home users but
> can be a real pain in a library setting.  To make the matter worse, our
> security software disables access to the Internet Options section of the IE
> toolbar so that "fixing" the home page requires disabling the security and 2
> reboots - things I don't really need staff doing.  Does anyone have ideas on
> how to "force" preferences in IE like you can do with the prefs.js in
> Navigator so that the home page would revert to the "default" simply by
> restarting the browser?
> 
> Thanks!!
> 
> Andrew Mutch
> Library Systems Technician
> Waterford Township Public Library
> Waterford, MI
> 
>