Change Internet Explorer Start Page Using This Registry Hack

Jul 24, 2008

Change Internet Explorer Start Page Using This Registry Hack

You must have seen Internet Explorer displaying a default hompage in your office network and many times in your own home computer. Although you can change the default homepage using Internet Options from Tools menu but what to do when Internet Options is disabled?

This is the time when you can use this registry hack to to change the default homepage for Internet Explorer 6 or Internet Explorer 7.

The path to registry key for this is:

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER \ Software \ Microsoft \ Internet Explorer \ Main]
“Start Page”=”http://www.nofullstop.com/”

For those who do not know how to open registry here are the easy steps:

Click on Start button.
Click on Run. This will open Run dialog box.
In the Run dialog box type regedit and hit enter. The registry window will open up.
Now you can follow the above mentioned path from the left pane of the registry window: HKEY_CURRENT_USER > Software > Microsoft > Internet Explorer > Main
Now in right pane you can change the value of Start Page to the homepage of your choice.

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