Ethame, if you'll open IE and click 'tools' then click options, you'll be presented with a screen containing icons. Select 'Internet' and customize. You'll get to a screen of various settings and you can choose the way you'ld like it to be.
If you've been attacked by a nasty of some sort, it may have reset some of the options. Your homepage can also be set in IE. You may have been highjacked. Sometimes a nasty can hide in restore.
Be aware that ME and XP both have a feature called 'Restore'. A nasty (virus, spyware, etc) can hide there and since it is a 'Windows' file, Windows won't allow any alteration so long as it is active. The registry gets re-written on the next bootup and the last successful boot is used and since nasties don't count, the boot appears to be sucessful, thus a 'nasty' gets replicated.
The solution is simple (assuming that's the problem), TEMPORARILY disable Restore (in order to 'unprotect'), scan/clean, re-enable restore and try again. May have to reboot.
During the disable process, you will destroy ALL your restore points in XP (ME?), thus some folks disagree with that fix, feeling that any restore point (even a corrupted one!) is better than none at all. You can sidestep that pitfall by creating a new restore point as soon as you have a clean machine (applies to XP only). FWIW, I have used it on both ME & XP Pro with no lasting ill effects.
HTH.
Ed in Texas.
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