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To: Gottfried who wrote (10627)	7/10/2000 2:57:27 PM
From: thecow	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110652

Not wanting to run our startpage conversation in the ground, but the LangaList newsletter covered our subject in todays letter. Stuck On An Unwanted Home Page? Some ISPs try to cram their home page down your browser's figurative throat. For example reader Tom Vallely writes: I recently switched to cable web service through Cox cable and excite@home. I've been reading about how you have to use excite as your home page. I don't like being told I have to use a service. I'm a little confused. I noticed that if I used the new icon on my desktop that I went to excite.com and couldn't change the home page. However, if I used my old IE icon I could do whatever I wanted. Free services may require you to use their home page; that's one of the ways they can be sure you're seeing the ads that pay for the service. But I don't know why a for-pay service should require you to use their home page. Although you shouldn't violate your user agreement; if you want to change your home page and can't, there are options. IE and Netscape handle home pages differently, so let's take them in turn: There are three ways you can change IE's home page. the simplest is to click on Tools/Internet Options/Home Page, and enter the URL you want. If that doesn't work, you can run Regedit and the drill down to HKEY_CURRENT_USER/ Software/Microsoft/Internet Explorer/Main/Start Page and edit the line in Start Page to be whatever URL you want for your home page. Or, copy and paste the following into Notepad: REGEDIT4 [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main] "Start Page"="http://www.langa.com" In Notepad, change the "www.langa.com" to be whatever home page you want (or leave it as Langa.Com--- I won't mind! <g>). Save the file to your desktop as homepage.reg (be sure it's not homepage.reg.txt or homepage.txt.reg). double click on the file, and your IE homepage will be set to whatever URL you typed in. If your home page ever gets changed, just click on the reg file to set it back. [NOTE: If you prefer, you also can download a ready-made reg file from langa.com . the contents are identical to those shown above, and once downloaded, may be edited in Notepad, as described above.] For Netscape browsers, try clicking Edit/Preferences/Home Page. If you can't change it there, shut down the browser, navigate to \Program Files\Netscape\Users\default and use Notepad to open "prefs.js." Add or edit the following line, and you'll change the home page to whatever URL you type in: user_pref("browser.startup.homepage", "http://www.langa.com");