How to enable and disable the changing of home pages in Internet Explorer

If you find that your Internet Explorer does not let you change your home page settings, here is something you can try On the other hand if you want to stop users from setting homepages in Internet explorer this will also help you.

Here's how to disable changing home page settings in Internet Explorer

1. Open the un box by going to the start menu and pressing run
2. Type in gpedit.msc to get to the computer group policy
3. The Group policy will open. Press the plus sign next to User Configuration (red number 1)
4. Then press the plus sign next to Administrative Tools (number 2)
5. Then make the word Windows Components blue. This will bring a menu up in the right column
6. Double click on the Internet Explorer folder

7. Scroll down to find disable changing home page settings. Select it by making it blue
8. Just to the left click on properties which will be a blue link.
9. Then the disable changing home page settings properties will come up
10. Choose enabled to stop users from changing any homepages in Internet Explorer
11. After you choose enable you have to type in the home page box a page that you do want to come up.
12. To reverse your changes, simply go back through the steps and choose disabled.

Notes:

• You will not even be able to change the homepages through Internet options in Internet Explorer.

• In Internet Explorer 7 it came up with a blank page and definitely blocked any way to change the homepage. You can still go to favorites menu or type a URL into the box to go to a site.

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