Introduction
This article explains how to change the home page of Internet Explorer using a script.
Using the code
The start page of Internet Explorer is saved in the Registry. If you open the Windows Registry Editor (Go to Start->Run, type regedit) and navigate to this following key location, you will see your current start page for IE:
My Computer->HKEY-CURRENT_USER->Software->Microsoft->InternetExplore->Main&-gt;Start Page
By changing this manually, you can set a different home page.
Following code shows you how to do it using VBScript
Define two objects to store the Shell object.
Dim objShell, RegLocate
Set objShell
to a new "WScript.Shell
" object.
Set objShell = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
If an error occurs, resume the next instruction:
On Error Resume Next
This is the Registry path to the home page of IE:
RegLocate = "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main\StartPage"
objShell.RegWrite RegLocate,"http://www.earn100more.blogspot.com","REG_SZ"
Show the finished message and quit:
WScript.Echo "Done"
WScript.Quit
Full source
Dim objShell, RegLocate
Set objShell = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
On Error Resume Next
RegLocate = "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main\Start Page"
objShell.RegWrite RegLocate,"http://www.earn100more.blogspot.com","REG_SZ"
WScript.Echo "Done"
WScript.Quit
Points of interest
Be careful when playing with the Windows Registry.
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