[windows2000] Re: IE6 changing the startup homepage

  • From: "Sorin Srbu" <Sorin.Srbu@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: "windows2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <windows2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2004 12:17:46 +0100

On Wed, 10 Mar 2004 15:13:27 -0500, Jim Kenzig http://thin.net
wrote:

>Every time there is an MS Update on IE this happens on my server. 

So theoretically, IE gets updated and for some time runs in kinda
default mode (with the MSN homepage set) until the real GPOs are
propagated?

Sounds reasonable.

Thx for the hint!


>-----Original Message-----
>From: windows2000-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>[mailto:windows2000-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Chris Berry
>Sent: Wednesday, March 10, 2004 1:51 PM
>To: windows2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: [windows2000] Re: IE6 changing the startup homepage
>
>
>Sorin Srbu wrote:
>| Hi all,
>|
>| Is there any reason for IE6 to change the GPO set intranet homepage
>| to the msn.com occasionally? Also removing the GPO set links in the
>| Favourites menu?
>|
>| It is set back to the intranet page after a few minutes. Clicking
>| the Home-button, only transfers me back to the MSN page.
>|
>| I've seen it a couple of times, and it seems like it does this
>| about every second or third day. And only on my admin workstation,
>| running WinXP SP1.
>|
>| This is truly weird. Anybody whod know why this is??
>
>No, but we've had similiar trouble on our win2k machines.  I had thought
>it was a configuration problem left over from when the previous admin
>was here.




BW,

Sorin

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