Will Stephenson wrote:

>Hello all!
>
>I believe I have a different kind of hijacking. A client of mine purchases a
>computer from a local store, and was surprised to find that his home page
>was set to the local store's web site. So he went into the Internet Options
>to change the home page to Yahoo. To his surprise, every part of that Home
>page dialog was grayed out. Essentially, there is no way to change through
>the normal channels. (As an aside, the title bar of IE also has the store's
>name there also)
>
>I went into the registry to see if I could find the website's name
>somewhere, but no joy. The computer is protected with Avast, Spybot, Ad
>aware, and Zonealarm. The computer is a clone with 512 RAM, a
>more-than-large enough HD and Windows XP Home.
>
>Thanks for your time and thoughts on this one.
>
>
>
Have you tried X-setup, a freeware program that after installation will
show in the control panel.

You will find Internet Explorer in the Internet section, and the home
page setting can be unlocked under URL handling.

Under Appereance you can set the Windows title to whatever you like.

http://www.x-setup.net/

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Mogens

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