IE5 Start Page

[Great_One]

Currently we use the IEAK to create a customized version of IE5. One of the things we do is set the home page to a specific site and we do not allow user to change the
start page. However, some sites offer to make themselves the default home page there by overriding our homepage. Since we dont allow the start page to be changed in the IE options, it makes it hard for us to put back in the correct start page.

Does anybody have a script that we can run to change the start page? Anything would be eaiser than the current solution of re-installing IE5.

[reboot]

In IE4.x it's View, Internet Options, General tab, type any page URL you want.
In IE5.x it's Tools, Internet Options, General tab,......

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[bob]

You can make a shortcut to iexplore.exe At the end of the target (cmd) line put in the webpage

[Great_One]

Its not that simple, I know where to set the start page in IE, but we grey out that box
so know one can change the home page. That works until somebody goes to a web page that
offers to make itself your start page. When that happens, we can't easily set it back.
I have seen some links on web pages that do this and was wondering what the code was so i could do it as well

[reboot]

Yes, I've seen the code as well. It's DHTML, and you can get it at www.dynamicdrive.com (http://www.dynamicdrive.com)
You may also just edit the registry key here: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main\Start Page
and here: HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main

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[Great_One]

Thanks, just what I needed.

[reghakr]

You can set a registry restriction by going to:

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Control Panel]
If the control Panel key doesn't exist, you right-click on the Intrernet explorer key and choose new>Key. Then right-click on Control Panel, choose new>DWORD value, name it HomePage and give it a value of 1.
This will prevent it from being changed.

reghakr