How to Change my Home Page

Malware applications, misbehaving web pages, and guest users will sometimes change your web browsers home page.

Changing your home page back to a reasonable option can save you time and annoyance every time you open your web browser.

Change your Home Page in Internet Explorer

To change your home page within Internet Explorer:

• Open Internet Explorer from desktop or Quick Launch
  
• Open the Tools menu
• Select Internet Options
• The General settings tab contains three sections. The first section, titled Home page is the one you are looking for.
• You now have four options to change your home page:
  • Type a URL into the block labeled Address
  • Click to set your home page to the web page which you are currently viewing
  • Click to set your home page to the default home page set when Internet Explorer was installed.
  • Click to cause Internet Explorer to always start with a blank page by default. This is a good option when you have extremely limited bandwidth.
• Click the Ok button

Change your Home Page in Mozilla Firefox

To change your home page within Mozilla Firefox:

• Open Firefox from desktop/Programs/Quick Launch
  
• Open the Tools menu
• Select Options
• The Main settings tab contains a sub section titled Startup
• The When Firefox starts dropdown list provides 3 options: Show my homepage, show a blank page and Show my windows & tabs from last time
  
• You now have four options to change your home page:
  • Type a URL into the block labeled Home Page
    
  • Click Use Current Pages to set your home page to the web page which you are currently viewing
  • Click Use Bookmarks to select a home page from your Bookmarks list
  • Click Restore to Default to cause Firefox to always start with a blank page by default. This is a good option when you have extremely limited bandwidth
• Click the Ok button