IE6 home page & other settings

The homepage on IE Options seems to be locked and I cannot find where to
unlock it so I can change the current home page address. Also I have a
number of folders that have appeared in the favourites that I cannot get rid
of. When I opne organise favourites, they do not appear.

I have loaded the latest MS Antisyware but it hasnt solved the problems. Any
suggestions?

"eagles06" <eagles06@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:19BDFC79-D4EE-467A-A65E-4D63A256428A@microsoft.com
> The homepage on IE Options seems to be locked and I cannot find where
> to unlock it so I can change the current home page address. Also I
> have a number of folders that have appeared in the favourites that I
> cannot get rid of. When I opne organise favourites, they do not
> appear.
>
> I have loaded the latest MS Antisyware but it hasnt solved the
> problems. Any suggestions?

Close IE.
Open Regedit.
Find the value NoBrowserOptions and remove every instance of it.
It is most likely (but not necessarily) to be here:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Inte rnet Explorer\Restrictions

You might try this from Mike Burgess first if you use SpyBot:
'Did you by chance run SpyBot's Immunize feature?
If so, you can unlock by unchecking the option to "Protect IE Control
Panel".
See http://forums.spywareinfo.com/index.php?showtopic=6748

AdAware, MS Anti-Spyware and other anti-spyware and anti-virus programs may
have similar options.

--
Frank Saunders, MS-MVP OE
Please respond in Newsgroup. Do not send email
http://www.fjsmjs.com
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Hi

Tried it and the homepage is now unlocked. Many thanks. i now have to owrk
out how to unlock unwanted favourite folders.

"Frank Saunders, MS-MVP OE" wrote:

> "eagles06" <eagles06@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:19BDFC79-D4EE-467A-A65E-4D63A256428A@microsoft.com
> > The homepage on IE Options seems to be locked and I cannot find where
> > to unlock it so I can change the current home page address. Also I
> > have a number of folders that have appeared in the favourites that I
> > cannot get rid of. When I opne organise favourites, they do not
> > appear.
> >
> > I have loaded the latest MS Antisyware but it hasnt solved the
> > problems. Any suggestions?
>
> Close IE.
> Open Regedit.
> Find the value NoBrowserOptions and remove every instance of it.
> It is most likely (but not necessarily) to be here:
> HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Inte rnet Explorer\Restrictions
>
> You might try this from Mike Burgess first if you use SpyBot:
> 'Did you by chance run SpyBot's Immunize feature?
> If so, you can unlock by unchecking the option to "Protect IE Control
> Panel".
> See http://forums.spywareinfo.com/index.php?showtopic=6748
>
> AdAware, MS Anti-Spyware and other anti-spyware and anti-virus programs may
> have similar options.
>
> --
> Frank Saunders, MS-MVP OE
> Please respond in Newsgroup. Do not send email
> http://www.fjsmjs.com
> Protect your PC
> http://www.microsoft.com/security/protect/
>
>
>
>