# IE5 home page is now Straightdope...

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ie5-home-page-is-now-straightdope/117775>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [July 7, 2002, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ie5-home-page-is-now-straightdope/117775 "2002-07-07T14:20:52Z")\
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**Author:** ![flapcats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/7993a0/32.png) [@flapcats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flapcats)\
**Post date:** [July 7, 2002, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ie5-home-page-is-now-straightdope/117775/1 "2002-07-07T14:20:52Z")

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Except inthe Address bar it says ‘[www.google.co.uk](http://www.google.co.uk)’

I’ve rebooted a couple of times, don’t really want to delete histroy/cache etc. Why does it go to SD when I hit home or type in Google? Every other website is fine… ?!

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**Author:** ![handy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5a626/32.png) [@handy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handy)\
**Post date:** [July 7, 2002, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ie5-home-page-is-now-straightdope/117775/2 "2002-07-07T15:08:59Z")

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Tools:Internet Options: Change the page to what you want it to be.

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**Author:** ![black\_rabbit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/f19dbf/32.png) [@black\_rabbit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/black_rabbit)\
**Post date:** [July 7, 2002, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ie5-home-page-is-now-straightdope/117775/3 "2002-07-07T17:27:21Z")

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Go to your hosts file in C:\WINDOWS and see if there’s an entry for Google. If it’s set to 65.201.198.8 (the SD’s IP), then somebody might have played a dirty trick on you. Delete the line, save, and restart IE.