[WEB4LIB] IE Home page

[Arthur Christy]

I have tried the hacks for locking the homepage.  I just can't seem to get
it to work. I have only tried to do a manual change.  I don't know of a web
site that changes it so I can't try that way.

Arthur Christy
Texas A&M University Texarkana
Library Datacenter
1024 Tucker Street
Texarkana, TX  75505
903-223-3159


-----Original Message-----
From: web4lib at webjunction.org
[mailto:web4lib at webjunction.org]On Behalf Of Grace E. Lee
Sent: Tuesday, April 02, 2002 9:57 AM
To: Multiple recipients of list
Subject: [WEB4LIB] IE Home page


Dear Arthur:

We are using Fortres and Windows 98 in our public labs. I use a
registry edit. Please BACK UP your registry file first!

Go to Start>Run, type regedit. Navigate to:

HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Internet
Explorer.

Right-click on the  Internet Explorer key, choose new>Key, name it
Control Panel.

Right-click on the Control Panel, chose new>DWORD value, name
it Homepage.

Right-click on Homepage, choose modify and type in the number
1. (HomePage=1)

This should lock your home page, so no other web site can change
it. Then navigate here and verify the homepage is correct:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main
look for the Start Page entry.

Hope this helps.

> Does anybody know how to LOCK the home page to prevent it from being
> changed?  We are having problems with web sites changing the homepage.
> Fortres keeps it from being changed manually.
>
> Arthur Christy
> Texas A&M University Texarkana
> Library Datacenter
> 1024 Tucker Street
> Texarkana, TX  75505
> 903-223-3159
>
>


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Grace E. Lee, Electronic Services Librarian
Mendik Library, New York Law School
57 Worth St., NY NY 10013
212-431-2858
email:glee at nyls.edu