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"Chopperdad" <scotty@bellsouth.net> wrote in message news:fu1Tb.6410$_r.2522@bignews6.bellsouth.net...
> I have a fairly new Dell and the home page that is listed as the "Use
> Default" is Dellnet.com.  I would like to change it so it will be my actual
> home page and not Dell's.   Every time I enter the one I use as my home page
> it is okay, but if I click on the "Use Default" it switches to the
> dellnet.com one.
>
If you feel comfortable with regedit then you go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main  and modify the key
Default_Page_URL to whatever URL you want i.e. http://www.home.bellsouth.net/

"Chopperdad" <scotty@bellsouth.net> wrote in message news:fu1Tb.6410$_r.2522@bignews6.bellsouth.net...
| I have a fairly new Dell and the home page that is listed as the "Use
| Default" is Dellnet.com.  I would like to change it so it will be my actual
| home page and not Dell's.   Every time I enter the one I use as my home page
| it is okay, but if I click on the "Use Default" it switches to the
| dellnet.com one.
| 
|


I use "Blank Page" as mine so I am not always looking at some hype....
-- 
Cheers, Dan

The easiest way is to manually go to the page you wish to use as your
homepage, then click on the Tools menu and select Internet Options, In the
Homepage (top) section, click the Use Current button, then Apply.

HH


"Chopperdad" <scotty@bellsouth.net> wrote in message
news:fu1Tb.6410$_r.2522@bignews6.bellsouth.net...
> I have a fairly new Dell and the home page that is listed as the "Use
> Default" is Dellnet.com.  I would like to change it so it will be my
actual
> home page and not Dell's.   Every time I enter the one I use as my home
page
> it is okay, but if I click on the "Use Default" it switches to the
> dellnet.com one.
>
>

"Chopperdad" <scotty@bellsouth.net> wrote in message news:<fu1Tb.6410$_r.2522@bignews6.bellsouth.net>...
> I have a fairly new Dell and the home page that is listed as the "Use
> Default" is Dellnet.com.  I would like to change it so it will be my actual
> home page and not Dell's.   Every time I enter the one I use as my home page
> it is okay, but if I click on the "Use Default" it switches to the
> dellnet.com one.

Navigate to the homepage of your choice; click tools; internet
options...; click, use current; then apply; OK.

(use default, means use original-it doen't set the default)

None of those things work. Dell installs something that 'grabs it back' at
boot. Don't know what it is, but the Dell tools of some sort.

Tom
"brane_ded" <braine_dead@lycos.com> wrote in message
news:df7b87a1.0402010621.142dc89c@posting.google.com...
> "Chopperdad" <scotty@bellsouth.net> wrote in message
news:<fu1Tb.6410$_r.2522@bignews6.bellsouth.net>...
> > I have a fairly new Dell and the home page that is listed as the "Use
> > Default" is Dellnet.com.  I would like to change it so it will be my
actual
> > home page and not Dell's.   Every time I enter the one I use as my home
page
> > it is okay, but if I click on the "Use Default" it switches to the
> > dellnet.com one.
>
> Navigate to the homepage of your choice; click tools; internet
> options...; click, use current; then apply; OK.
>
> (use default, means use original-it doen't set the default)

Worked on my 4550.

HH

"Tom Scales" <tomtoo@softhome.net> wrote in message
news:7pOdnffWqLV7jYDdRVn-sQ@comcast.com...
> None of those things work. Dell installs something that 'grabs it back' at
> boot. Don't know what it is, but the Dell tools of some sort.
>
> Tom
> "brane_ded" <braine_dead@lycos.com> wrote in message
> news:df7b87a1.0402010621.142dc89c@posting.google.com...
> > "Chopperdad" <scotty@bellsouth.net> wrote in message
> news:<fu1Tb.6410$_r.2522@bignews6.bellsouth.net>...
> > > I have a fairly new Dell and the home page that is listed as the "Use
> > > Default" is Dellnet.com.  I would like to change it so it will be my
> actual
> > > home page and not Dell's.   Every time I enter the one I use as my
home
> page
> > > it is okay, but if I click on the "Use Default" it switches to the
> > > dellnet.com one.
> >
> > Navigate to the homepage of your choice; click tools; internet
> > options...; click, use current; then apply; OK.
> >
> > (use default, means use original-it doen't set the default)
>
>

On Sun, 1 Feb 2004 09:13:47 -0500, "Dan Koerner"
<dankoerner@bellsouth.net.spam.is.bad> wrote:

>
>"Chopperdad" <scotty@bellsouth.net> wrote in message news:fu1Tb.6410$_r.2522@bignews6.bellsouth.net...
>| I have a fairly new Dell and the home page that is listed as the "Use
>| Default" is Dellnet.com.  I would like to change it so it will be my actual
>| home page and not Dell's.   Every time I enter the one I use as my home page
>| it is okay, but if I click on the "Use Default" it switches to the
>| dellnet.com one.
>| 
>|
>
>
>I use "Blank Page" as mine so I am not always looking at some hype....

Same here.  Every time I go on the web it's to someplace different, so
why would I even want to set a home page?  If I were forced to set
one, I would probably point it to Google.

Tom Scales wrote:
> None of those things work. Dell installs something that 'grabs it back' at
> boot. Don't know what it is, but the Dell tools of some sort.

Some of the current crop of malware will cause that to happen. I would 
have thought that the regedit change would take care of it though.

Do you have either (or both) Ad-Aware or Spybot? Both are great FREE 
software for removing spyware and other "malware" stuff that not only 
"phones home" but causes windows to crash more frequently that "normal."

If you don't have them, do a google search on the above names and 
include the word "spyware."

Ray

"Chopperdad" <scotty@bellsouth.net> wrote in message
news:fu1Tb.6410$_r.2522@bignews6.bellsouth.net...
> I have a fairly new Dell and the home page that is listed as the "Use
> Default" is Dellnet.com.  I would like to change it so it will be my
actual
> home page and not Dell's.   Every time I enter the one I use as my home
page
> it is okay, but if I click on the "Use Default" it switches to the
> dellnet.com one.
>

Uhhh. If you tell it to use default, which you already know is Dell's page,
why are you surprised when it does it? Seems to make perfect sense. What you
want is for it NOT to use the default so stop clicking on that button.
Navigate you whatever page you like, click on "use this page" and if you
don't click anything else it shouldn't change again.
-- 
John McGaw
[Knoxville, TN, USA]

Return address will not work. Please
reply in group or through my website:
http://johnmcgaw.com

"Folk" <Folk@folk.com> wrote in message news:llgq10h898848bq103qvf33b77mgnus6kt@4ax.com...
| On Sun, 1 Feb 2004 09:13:47 -0500, "Dan Koerner"
| <dankoerner@bellsouth.net.spam.is.bad> wrote:
| 
| >
| >"Chopperdad" <scotty@bellsouth.net> wrote in message news:fu1Tb.6410$_r.2522@bignews6.bellsouth.net...
| >| I have a fairly new Dell and the home page that is listed as the "Use
| >| Default" is Dellnet.com.  I would like to change it so it will be my actual
| >| home page and not Dell's.   Every time I enter the one I use as my home page
| >| it is okay, but if I click on the "Use Default" it switches to the
| >| dellnet.com one.
| >| 
| >|
| >
| >
| >I use "Blank Page" as mine so I am not always looking at some hype....
| 
| Same here.  Every time I go on the web it's to someplace different, so
| why would I even want to set a home page?  If I were forced to set
| one, I would probably point it to Google.
| 

For sites that I repeatedly go to, I put their URL in the Address Toolbar located in/on the Taskbar.  If I want one, then all I have to do is pull up the URL and click Go.  The browser automagically opens at that site.  :)
-- 
Cheers, Dan

LMAO @ Mike C. I own 2 Dell's and they are as good or better than any
computer I've worked on. And I don't believe that Dell installs something to
"grab" the homepage back at bootup. It's not the computer, its the user. Set
your homepage and don't click on use default unless you want to edit the
registry first.

"Mike C" <news0815.8.macguy@spamgourmet.com> wrote in message
news:news0815.8.macguy-1857A7.18195101022004@bignews.bellsouth.net...
> In article <fu1Tb.6410$_r.2522@bignews6.bellsouth.net>,
>  "Chopperdad" <scotty@bellsouth.net> wrote:
>
> > I have a fairly new Dell and the home page that is listed as the "Use
> > Default" is Dellnet.com.  I would like to change it so it will be my
actual
> > home page and not Dell's.   Every time I enter the one I use as my home
page
> > it is okay, but if I click on the "Use Default" it switches to the
> > dellnet.com one.
> >
> >
>
> Get a real computer.
>
> -- 
> mike3k <at> suespammers <dot> org
> You can blow out a candle, but you can't blow out a fire. Once the flame
> begins to catch, the wind will blow it higher. - Peter Gabriel, "Biko"

"Chopperdad" <scotty@bellsouth.net> wrote in message
news:fu1Tb.6410$_r.2522@bignews6.bellsouth.net...
> I have a fairly new Dell and the home page that is listed as the "Use
> Default" is Dellnet.com.  I would like to change it so it will be my
actual
> home page and not Dell's.   Every time I enter the one I use as my home
page
> it is okay, but if I click on the "Use Default" it switches to the
> dellnet.com one.

The thing that EVERYBODY forgets to do is after you change the url in the
box or/to make it a default URL, whicheverone you choose, YOU HAVE TO GO TO
THE BOTTOM OF THE PAGE AND HIT APPLY!

otherwise all your changes are for naught.

I actually accused a tech support person of doing that on purpose. I had to
apologize to them when he told me what I was doing wrong, but DAMN! I was
glad to find that out!

Also there is malware that keeps changing the tool bars too, and there is no
easy way to get rid of that, even by modifying the registry, but there is a
command called FORMAT that usually takes care of that...and everything else
too, unfortunately.

"Billy" <n5we@bellsouth.net> wrote in message
news:l2iTb.12833$tl5.9456@bignews1.bellsouth.net...
|
| The thing that EVERYBODY forgets to do is after you change the url in the
| box or/to make it a default URL, whicheverone you choose, YOU HAVE TO GO
TO
| THE BOTTOM OF THE PAGE AND HIT APPLY!
|
| otherwise all your changes are for naught.
|

Not true, as long as you press 'ok' to close the box instead of using the
'x' box in the upper right. When you hit 'ok' it performs an apply and close
operation for you. You you use the 'x' at the top right of the window, it
does not apply the changes (unlless of course you clicked 'apply') and just
closes the window.

On 1 Feb 2004 06:21:33 -0800, braine_dead@lycos.com (brane_ded) wrote:

>"Chopperdad" <scotty@bellsouth.net> wrote in message news:<fu1Tb.6410$_r.2522@bignews6.bellsouth.net>...
>> I have a fairly new Dell and the home page that is listed as the "Use
>> Default" is Dellnet.com.  I would like to change it so it will be my actual
>> home page and not Dell's.   Every time I enter the one I use as my home page
>> it is okay, but if I click on the "Use Default" it switches to the
>> dellnet.com one.
>
>Navigate to the homepage of your choice; click tools; internet
>options...; click, use current; then apply; OK.
>
>(use default, means use original-it doen't set the default)

He can change the home page no problems.  But if you read the post
carefully he wants to change the "default" page (normally Microsoft
with unbrandend Windows installs, or Dell in this case).  This can
only be changed by editing the registry.  Do a search for
"dellnet.com" in the registry and change it there.  Remember to back
up your registry first if you are not familiar with what you are
doing.


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