Registry Hack to Set Internet Explorer Start Page
System administrators will almost always set the default home page for the browser to the corporate website or intranet when building a machine. This is just a small registry hack that will set the home page for IE6 or IE7.
You could probably use this in a logon script to set to home page on all users when they login to the network.
Here's the registry hack. You'll potentially want to change the home page listed.
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main]
"Start Page"="http://www.howtogeek.com/"
Here's a downloadable version:
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This does not work on IE 7.0 for some reason. I added the registry key to a TEST.REG file under the domain contoller path \\MACINENAME\SYSVOL\DOMAIN\SCRIPTS and pointed the users in active directory to that registry script. It works fine for IE 6 but not IE 7.0.
I posted earlier about the login script not working with IE 7.0. My fault, I did not take the OS into consideration when I was testing. Because I tested IE 6 on XP and IE 7 on Vista. IE 7.0 on XP works fine. The problem is with Vista. It turns out that nothing that is in the login script works on a VISTA machine, except for the drive mapping, so anything else that has to do with changing the registry on the vista machine will not work. The only workaround (which is not a solution and defeats the purpose of having Vista in the first place) is that I needed to disable UAC and reboot so the login script work.
If anyone has a better solution on what I need to do so that I can run the login script without disabling UAC, please let me know.
You need to disable the UAC via the registry first, then enable it back on, to allow for the home page address to change.
Thanks for the reply back Gareth. I don't want to have to manually do this, I was hoping that the a login script can do it. I tried to "call regedit /s disable_uac.reg" from my login script and then call other registry files, but i get this message when I login to a vista machine after the login script runs "System Error 1314 has occured. A required privilage is not held by the client."
I have local admin rights, so I don't know what the deal with Vista. What privilage is Vista talking about?
Sorry, I am a newbie with login scripts, so I don't know if there is something that I can write in the script to allow vista to allow scripts to run from a tusted machine on the same domain.
If someone knows, let me know.
Thanks.
Hi,
I am unable to set my company default web page as home page in IE 7 please give me solution.
Thanks,
i'm on a school network that has quite tight security…for the last day i want to change the hole page…any idea how i would hack into the registry to do this? (regedit is disabled etc. etc.)
I am Running a Int V6 , But I am Having trouble Making my own Home page , As a Web site I surfed must have hacked in and made it self a Home Page , I cannot go to Int Opt , Gen Tab , to change as
all options Like Use Current , Use Default , Use Blank are Not Changeble , And the Home Page is Set
Looks like I might need to Uninstall all my Current Internet and re Load and start again But this is going to to loose all my settings etc…
Can you please advise a better way
Paul, Some kind of virus infected your computer and added/changed the registry.
1. Unistall Any program that look suspecious to you.
2. Run a good updated virus scanner (there are free online scanners such as Symantec, TrendMicro) if you do not have one installed on your computer.
3. Go to http://us.trendmicro.com/us/pr.....index.html and download the CWShredder.exe and run it to remove browser hijackers.
4. Go to http://www.lavasoftusa.com/ to dowaload, install and run the Anti-spyware program.
5. Go to http://www.ccleaner.com/ and download the program and install it, run the "cleaner" by clicking on "Analyze" and remove the crap that it find by clicking on "run cleaner", do the same thing be selecting "Issues" to remove registry entries that don't point to anything.
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=320159
Paul, few more thing I forgot to mention is that even after cleaning your conmputer, certain registry entries that was changed by the virus to disable your ability to set you home page, so you will need to enable these. Here you can find help on this post http://www.anetforums.com/post.....ndex=28690
Also, make sure you computer is patched with all the latest updates from microsoft.
Is there anyway to prevent the reg file from prompting the users to click yes and no?
Upon upgrading our workstations to Vista from XP, anytime our logon script executes a reg import command, Vista requires Admin verification (Yes or No…) box. Anyone one know how to get around this or know of a MS tool that will make this work. Network scripts not much good without it as infosecurity polices, end users can just say no don't like that infosecurity policy, lets keep me wide open. So much for M$ 'inovations'. …Sorry I'm crabby at MS. Well if anyone knows of something, please let me know. Thanks.
Running Vista clean install and after month I cannot log on to any home page, error I get is //ieframe.dlldnerror.htm ….any suggestions
thanks and help!
What would be the hack for a machine to have a website in internet explorer to be set for all users?
hey crackers, u just need to pick one of two options so the ie7 will know ur preferences, then itll use ur homepage
with internet explorer open, go to tools tab then internet options.
on the general tab type in the address of the site you want to be
your home page. hit apply then ok. thats it.
Thanks for that regedit tip. I substituted www.google.co.uk for what was there, re-opened IE7 and up came the google page that I have been denied for some while. IE6 allowed the home page to be set from 'internet options'. IE7 went backwards in that respect.