Restore Homepage

Is your Internet Explorer homepage wrong? Don't know how it got switched, but now your normal hompage is gone and you have this new one in its place? Actually, it's very easy to get your old homepage back- assuming you know what the address was to your original homepage. Open Explorer and head to your old homepage. Once there, click the Tools menu, Internet Options.

A tabbed screen will pop up with the General tab selected. Click the "Use Current" button

That should switch your homepage back.

This seems to happen a lot, usually due to an underhanded tactic of some unscrupulous site. What they do is put a line of code in the web page that generates a pop up box asking you if you want to set their site for your homepage.

In order to actually get you to say yes, they'll put some kind of message in that same box to "trick" you into saying yes to them - hoping you'll miss the part about getting your homepage switched. So, be sure to read carefully.

Oh, one last thing - if you really like your current homepage, place it in your Favorites folder. That way, should your homepage accidentally get changed, at least you'll be able to get back to it easily. Sometimes a custom homepage URLs can be long and complicated, so this is a good way to "back up" your homepage.