I am trying to write a registry files that will simply set the Intrnet Explorer homepage to computing.net. This is my first time making a file to edit the registry. I execute this file and it says that is makes this key but I look in regedit and nothing has changed. Does anybody know what is wrong? Here I the little file I wrote. REGEDIT4 [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main] "Start Page"="http://www.computing.net/" As I said this is my first time and i couldn't really find many examples to go off of. Can there be spaces in the Address. thanks.

Instead of messing with the Registry I would go under Tools à Internet Options and under the General Tap type in that web site in the Address of the Home Page. That will save you a lot of grief. For assistance on the Registry try: http://www.woram.com/REGTIPS.HTM. And http://www.woram.com/UTILITY.HTM.

yeah i tend to agree but i am making a batch file that automatically executes the .reg file. thanks for the links.

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main] "Anchor Underline"="yes" "Cache_Update_Frequency"="Once_Per_Session" "Display Inline Images"="yes" "Do404Search"=dword:00000002 "Local Page"="C:\\WINDOWS\\SYSTEM\\blank.htm" "Save_Session_History_On_Exit"="no" "Show_FullURL"="no" "Show_StatusBar"="yes" "Show_ToolBar"="yes" "Show_URLinStatusBar"="yes" "Show_URLToolBar"="yes" "Start Page"="http://www.computing.net/"

So I can't update just 1 value. Why is that?

that is exeactly what i have just not as many values

Yes you can update one value, I merely copied that partial entry of the string that's in my registry as an example to show you the entry is correct.