Got a quick question. I have had MyYahoo as my homepage for years, although I rarely look at it and often just click straight from there to CNN or SDMB etc.
Whenever I try to change my homepage, it always reverts back to MyYahoo. I’ve tried everything I know in IE (clearing cookies, restarting, etc), but I don’t know enough to be messing with the registry.
Has this happened to anyone else? Does anyone know how to fix it?
Go to internet options and paste the page address you want as homepage in there (you can have more than one)
If it is greyed out then one of your security programs has i locked. Spybot Search & Destroy and SuperAntiSpyware both offer this option as a protection against redirects but it is also possible, even probable that Yahoo have locked it. A lot of ISPs do this, most irritating.
If you aren’t particularly committed to IE, try Firefox or Opera.
I had tried that. As soon as I close and restart IE, my.yahoo.com is still the only homepage. I have to think that there is a registry key Yahoo is using to lock the homepage, but I don’t know enough to be able to find it.
Bump for the working folks who might know another solution.
Someone with a similar problem using Virgin. Looks an easy enough fix
Hmm, that didn’t work either…
I can only suggest that you install either or both of SuperAntiSpyware and Spybot Search & Destroy and use their tools to change to the homepage you prefer then lock it.
Do you have the Yahoo toolbar installed? If you do, uninstall that. Then reboot and reset your homepage to whatever you like.
I don’t have Yahoo toolbar or any other Yahoo software downloaded that I can find (looked through Add/Remove Programs).
I have Spybot, but 1)it stalls halfway though scanning just about every time and 2) I can’t find any setting that allows me to lock the homepage.
Looks like you are right about Spybot S&D, I haven’t used the function in the new version but you might try the Browser Pages function instead - http://img519.imageshack.us/img519/1196/spybotif4.png
Can’t see why Spybot S&D should be stalling but there were some compatibility issues with Vista a couple of months ago. Have you done a clean install recently.
If you can’t achieve a change with it, try Superantispyware’s tools instead.
If you’re using Norton Internet Security it has an option to lock the home page that may be turned on.
