How to Fix Internet Explorer?

Sep 21
06:06

2010

Hellen White

Hellen White

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This article is about the cause of that the Internet Explorer home page is changed and how to deal with it. Manual methods and shortcuts are discussed. Sincerely hope it can be helpful for you.

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Computers have become one of our necessary office tools. Our work efficiency will be affected to a large extent if there is something wrong with our computer. When we search for information on the Internet,How to Fix Internet Explorer? Articles the web browser is used frequently. The information about various fields can be collected quickly. However, the homepage of Internet Explorer can be changed mysteriously. Consequently, the website we want to visit can not be accessed successfully.

Why does that occur? This is a problem many computer users encountered. The main cause is that there are viruses or spyware that have invaded your computer. Internet Explorer is the most popular web browser; therefore, it can be frequently attacked by hackers, viruses or spyware. The most common symptom is that the home page of Internet Explore is changed to another webpage that we are not familiar with. When the web browser is opened, the unfamiliar website pops up. What should be done if there is something wrong with Internet Explorer? In common conditions, You can change it back as the following steps: Open IE-->"Tools"-->"General"-->"Home", In the pop-up window, you can enter the URL you frequently use under "change the home page" and then click the "Use Current Page" button, you can set it to your IE home page; if you set it as "default page", the home page should be the microsoft company. As for the "blank page" option, if you select this, the webpage is blank when you open your web browsers. Alternatively, you can solve this problem by modifying the registry. However, in many cases, due to the control of malicious programs, the original home page can not be changed back. Sometimes, the malicious website still pops up when you change the web browser settings. Under this situation, what we can do is to change the registry settings.

The Windows registry editor must be opened first. Click "Start" menu-->Click "Run"-->Enter "regedit"-->Click "OK". Then the registry editor can be opened. The registry files of IE home page are placed under HKEY_CURRENT_USER \ Software \ Microsoft \ Internet Explorer \ Main \ Start Page. If you know much about computer registry, you can try to change the registry items. If you are not so confident about how to change the items, you'd better not to make any changes to it; otherwise your computer may crash. It is best to choose a tool to fix IE. There are many fix tools. It is indeed difficult to make a decision. It is suggested that you purchase a registry cleaner with all these functions, not only including IE fix feature. If you want to know more about registry cleaners, you can visit http://www.registrymum.com/ .