A little Homepage reset in IE

Posted by Phil on May 19, 2008 under Off-Topic, PC | Be the First to Comment

Sounds easy enough right?  Well what happens when your box has been locked down and when you look at your internet options in IE (or in control panel) you discover that the homepage box has been grayed-out and there’s nothing you can do to reset it?  Simple, use another route.  One of the things that m$ almost got right was the ability to get anywhere you wanted to by at least 2 different ways.  In this case the SysAdmins may have blocked your normal route with a group or user policy, but they didn’t block the other route.

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If you just watched the video (sorry about the small compression)  you’ve see that there is another way to set your homepage in IE7, the little drop down menu by your homepage button.  simply navigate to the page you want as your homepage and then click the drop down and select “Add or Change Home Page”.  From there a new dialog window will appear and then click on the radio button next to “Use this webpage as your only home page” (the first time you do this I think you have three options so pick the one closest to this option).  From there just click the “Yes” button and then you’re set!