i always use altavista for my ie homepage. awhile ago i clicked on internet and msn was homepage. i have tried to change homepage back to altavista using tools - internet options like i've done in the past, but every time i click on internet, msn comes back as homepage. any suggestions? thanks

vandal67

Anytime you upgrade IE it will default to MSN. However you should be able to change it to whatever you want.

Are you going to altavista first and clicking on "use current"?

i tried that and manually changed and applied, but neither worked.

vandal67

What exactly does happen? Are you closing IE and when returning to IE the home page is now MSN?

What exact verion of IE are you running? Look under help> about IE in IE to find that info.

yes, everytime i reopen ie it automatically goes to MSN. version 6.0 i have always been able to reset homepage in the past but am not able to do that now

vandal67

You have always been able to reset the home page in the past. How often and long has this problem persisted?

Have you tried setting the homepage to something other than altavista? Try Yahoo.com for instance.

Your EXACT version or IE (not MSN) isn't 6. It MAY be a 6 followed by more. Post the Exact version. find it as I described above. I'm trying to determine if you have the latest version of IE for Win2000.

It sounds from your last response that you haven't EVER successfully gotten Altavista to stay as the homepage. I think you may simply be doing things wrong.

Try this, open IE and using the address bar open the AltaVista homepage. While at the altavista homepage go to Tools> Internet options> click on the "use current" button. That should have changed the address in the box to Altavista and you should still be viewing the Altavista home page. Now click the apply button then the OK button.

Now close IE and reopen. Altavista homepage should be showing.

ie version 6.0.2800.1106

problem started yesterday

have always been able to reset homepage to altavista before yesterday

a sidenote: i run noadware to protect against spyware - when i change homepages it always asks for confirmation - i click yes - as soon as i close ie (after changing to altavista) the noadware confirmation box comes up automatically and says "an attempt is being made to change my homepage back to MSN" and it will not accept "no" as an answer, just keeps popping up until i agree - by the way homepage automatically goes back to MSN even when noadware is disabled, and noadware has never affected changing homepages in the past

i have tried opening altavista and selecting use current button several times, but to no avail

vandal67

just received this error message when i open ie a minute ago - next attempt was normal

Server Error in '/' Application.
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Runtime Error
Description: An application error occurred on the server. The current custom error settings for this application prevent the details of the application error from being viewed remotely (for security reasons). It could, however, be viewed by browsers running on the local server machine.

Details: To enable the details of this specific error message to be viewable on remote machines, please create a <customErrors> tag within a "web.config" configuration file located in the root directory of the current web application. This <customErrors> tag should then have its "mode" attribute set to "Off".

<configuration>
<system.web>
<customErrors mode="RemoteOnly" defaultRedirect="mycustompage.htm"/>
</system.web>
</configuration>

vandal67

this is the exact address that my homepage automatically reverts back to

http://www.microsoft.com/isapi/redi...

vandal67

Have you installed any new programs in the last few days?

I use Adaware SE or 2007 and Spybot Search & Destroy 1.4. Find both at the link below. After installing, update both before running. Spybot has an immunize feature. This will block all sites in their database. Read how to use it and do so.
http://www.pcworld.com/downloads/