Go to the page you want as your home page, click Tools on the menu bar and select Internet Options. There's a button there to make the current page your home page....

Paul

 

Hmm. That won't work! I have the same problems on my home pc. It will change back! Don't know what it is. My boss said it was probably something to do with cookies. Deleted them and still came up.

That'll teach me to go viewing unsavory websites.

(Not that I'm suggesting that FZR1000Exup does that sort of thing.)

 

you need to run your virus software, adaware and spybot to get rid of some spy/adware hijacker on your system.

Unless you are on NTL, the NTL toolbox thing has a place where it resets the homepage to NTL usually, you need to change it in there.

 

You can reset your homepage by:
Click on the "Tools" menu and select "Internet Options", in the window that opens, select the "General" tab. The top option on that section is the "Home Page" preset in which you would enter your desired homepage.
BUT!!!!
It also sounds like you have a similar problem to one that I have on one of my PC's in that the homepage is being constantly reset to some sort of search page called "about.blank". If that is the case then you have been infected by some 'Spyware' or 'Adware' which writes this particular page into your 'Temp' folder and some other carp into the system registry.
Last night I found this strain of Spyware to be called "CoolWWWSearch" but whatever Anti-Spyware software I've used, this still remains active.
So I'm stuck for a remedy.

Can anyone else help further?

 

http://www.snapfiles.com/get/miniremovalcw.html
this is supposed to get rid of coolwwwsearch

If you find the name of your hijacker or the web page that becomes the home page, try typing it into a search engine, you can usually find help that way

 

another similar one is called Gator. It resets your homepage to one of it's own clients...........a right pain..........usually you can get rid of it by going to thei webpage. Try running Adaware.you can d/l the free version from www.lavasoft.com

 

Install Spybot - Search and Destroy.

Not only it will remove all nastys but block alot of them getting on your PC

Download Spybot from here

 

Run Spybot and clean out your computer. Anybody who doesn't do this is looking for problems.

Then install Firefox. A much better browser overall. Check out the differences between IE and Firefox here and then get it from here

 

I agree , also run Firefox - I have been running for three weeks now and don't know
how I managed before - its fantastic.
Tab browsing rocks !

 

Am enjoying firefox on OS-X mac so far, much wider compatability than safari, much more stable than IE

 

We use Ad-Aware and Spybot. But you need to make sure you have anti virus protection (we have a few packages running at different levels) and a firewall (stand alone if you can). Make sure all of your software (especially the operating system and all security packages) are at the latest levels on a regular basis.

Its a pain but totally necessary (especially for us).

I've also been using Firefox recently and its good, but there have been some problems. Quite a few crashes (more than IE), plus there's some issues with printing for me at least. Still, I'm sure these issues will be addressed quickly plus the extra features are good.

Jon,
Slot City.

 

Hey thanks for the tips guys! I've just installed and run Spybot and the problem is gone! I've also installed Firefox and am browsing with it right now. I don't really know what the advantage is with Firefox but I think I'll stick with it if it doesn't give me any trouble. Thanks again.