How would you like to lock your home page so it
cannot be changed by your brother, sister, parents, children or anyone else?
This trick will make it so that your browsers home page (the page that comes
up when you start your browser) cannot be changed either accidentally, or
on purpose. It may even prevent some simple hijacking software from changing
it.
You'll need to edit your Registry for this tip.
Changes to the Registry are semi permanent. Back it up or you'll be outta
luck if something goes wrong.
Click here
for more information on backing up and restoring the registry.
Click
Start,
Run,
and enter
REGEDIT
Navigate to this string:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Control Panel
If the keys for Internet Explorer and Control Panel are not present, add them
manually.
- Right-click the Microsoft key folder, click New, and choose Key.
- Name it Internet Explorer.
- Right-click the Internet Explorer key folder, click New, and choose
Key.
- Name it Control Panel.
Right-click the Control Panel key folder and choose "new DWORD
value." Rename the value "Homepage."
Right-click the Homepage value, choose
Modify, and change the value from "0" to "1."
Now go into your Internet Explorer options. Your homepage is locked and
unmodifiable!
Here's a shortcut if you'd rather not edit the Registry yourself. Download
and double-click the following file. It will make the above changes to your
Registry automatically.
Lock Your Homepage Registry Script
Download
Undoing the damage
Sometimes we want to unlock it again. The following instructions will unlock
it for you.
Back up your registry in case you mess up.
Navigate back to the string:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Control
Panel
Right-click the Homepage value, choose Modify,
and change the value from "1" back to "0." Now go into your Internet Explorer
options. Your homepage is unlocked and modifiable!