# I can't set my own homepage!

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-set-my-own-homepage/215801>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [November 28, 2003, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-set-my-own-homepage/215801 "2003-11-28T23:37:42Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![kip70](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/5f9b8f/32.png) [@kip70](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kip70)\
**Post date:** [November 28, 2003, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-set-my-own-homepage/215801/1 "2003-11-28T23:37:42Z")

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Well, not anymore. If I select an internet page to be my home page in IE, the next time I start up this page:

[http://tooncomics.com/main/hp.php](http://tooncomics.com/main/hp.php)

is my home page again. Bastards. I ran Spybot and Ad Aware, but that didn’t help. So, any ideas how to get rid of this? I use Windows ME and IE 6.0

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**Author:** ![Horrifying\_Howler\_Monkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/df788c/32.png) [@Horrifying\_Howler\_Monkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horrifying_Howler_Monkey)\
**Post date:** [November 28, 2003, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-set-my-own-homepage/215801/2 "2003-11-28T23:40:05Z")

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Did you try running the internet repair tool? (it’s in add/remove programs) in some cases that helps.

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**Author:** ![kip70](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/5f9b8f/32.png) [@kip70](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kip70)\
**Post date:** [November 29, 2003, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-set-my-own-homepage/215801/3 "2003-11-29T20:08:18Z")

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That didn’t help either. Any other ideas?

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**Author:** ![Tusculan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecd19e/32.png) [@Tusculan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tusculan)\
**Post date:** [November 29, 2003, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-set-my-own-homepage/215801/4 "2003-11-29T20:23:11Z")

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See instructions [here](http://gambit.catharsis.org/mt/archives/000007.html). I Googled this link, but the suggestion to use CWShredder seems a good one, since the symptom you described is similar to the CoolWebSearch problem.

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**Author:** ![Tusculan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecd19e/32.png) [@Tusculan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tusculan)\
**Post date:** [November 29, 2003, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-set-my-own-homepage/215801/5 "2003-11-29T20:24:52Z")

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See als [this link](http://www.computing.net/windowsme/wwwboard/forum/39884.html), with the same suggestion, and a link to CWShredder. It appears to have worked there.

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**Author:** ![kip70](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/5f9b8f/32.png) [@kip70](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kip70)\
**Post date:** [November 30, 2003, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-set-my-own-homepage/215801/6 "2003-11-30T20:43:48Z")

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Thanks very much, Tusculan, this did the trick. It even got rid of all the sites that were put in my history (while I never visited them). GREAT!