I've been such a terrible fool

[Nevin]

Whilst looking for Daphne and Celeste song lyrics (don't ask) my browser was hijacked by some git of a webpage which has set itself as my homepage (www.justsurfing.com) and added a few pron sites to my favourites list for good measure. I've managed to delete these, but our system permissions don't allow us to reset our homepage.

Does anyone know what teh hotkey for this is so I can set it back to our office intranet? I'm sure its something like Ctrl-Alt-D, but can't be certain and don't want to start messing about with stuff.

[loserkid]

www.accesstechnologyinstitute.com/reference/refcards/msie.htm

has some of them but I can't see the one you want...

[thrust]

This page may be of some use: www.spywareinfo.com/articles/hijacked/2.html

[Deester]

Whilst looking for Daphne and Celeste song lyrics

www.getlyrical.com

[CarZee]

Assuming Windows 2000 and IE6, copy & paste the following into notepad:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftInternet ExplorerMain]
"Start Page"="www.pistonheads.com/gassing/"

Save it as homepage.reg (Select 'All File Types' insead of *.TXT in the save dialogue.

Obviously, change the url in this text to your intranet start page.

Save the file to your desktop, close all internet windows, then double click this REG file... you should see a popup that says

Registry Editor

Are you sure that you want to add the information in c:docu~blah to the registry?

YES|NO

Click yes (duh...)

Registry Editor

Information in c:docu~blah has been successfully entered into the registry

OK

[CarZee]

or... you can normally set a home page by going to the desired page and dragging the IE icon from the left of the Address bar onto the Home icon above.. it'll say "are you sure you wish to ... blah... blah.. homepage?"..

[Nevin]

Thanks for all yoru suggestions, but I can't do any of those unfortunately, which is why I need the hotkeys. We have no desktop as such on our system, you can't save to any location other than a specific client folder etc. We are very restricted in what we can do.

[CarZee]

Nevin said: Thanks for all yoru suggestions, but I can't do any of those unfortunately, which is why I need the hotkeys. We have no desktop as such on our system, you can't save to any location other than a specific client folder etc. We are very restricted in what we can do.

So save it to that folder - doesn't have to be the desktop..

you can do it in MS Word -just make sure you save it as a TXT file, then rename it in the folder to be a .REG file..

The latter option of dragging the icon could also still work?

[Nevin]

Once stuff is saved to a specific folder we can then only access it using our proprietary system, which only lets us open stuff in Word, nowhere else. Dragging the icon doesn't work either unfortunately Carzee, it just brings up the not allowed circle with diagonal line through it. Hey ho.

[workshy fopp]

As carzee said - but you will need REGEDIT4 at the top of the file. Copy and paste everything below the line into a text file and save as - isurfpornatwork.reg

__________________________________________________

REGEDIT4

[HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftInternet ExplorerMain]

"Start Page"="www.yahoo.com"

[moleamol]

If you are that restricted, just log off and log back on, you ill probably find it has reset itself, as if by magic

[theboymoon]

Whilst looking for Daphne and Celeste song lyrics.

Surely we are not going to leave this statement unchallenged. An explanation is due......!

[thrust]

Running programs on restricted systems 101:

Load up a program that can do Insert->Object operations (i.e MS Word/Excel etc)

I'll assume you're using Word for convenience:

Select 'Object' from the 'Insert' menu

Select the Create New tab, and locate 'Package' on the list and click OK, it should load the Object Packager

In the object packager, select 'Command Line' from the edit menu. In the dialog type the command you wish to excecute - 'Regedit.exe' or 'cmd.exe' are usually good candidates.

Click OK and the command line should appear in the right-hand pane of the object packager. Double-click the right hand pane to execute the command.

It may work, but it depends how clever your Sysadmin is really.

[CarZee]

workshy fopp said: As carzee said - but you will need REGEDIT4 at the top of the file.

if you're using anything prior to Win2k including NT4, Me, 98 & 95

But I specified that my solution was for Win2k and I know it's right because I exported it from my reggie's tree.

[Nevin]

Moleamol, the simplest solutions are always the best and my homepage has now returned to normal. Thank you all.

As for the Daphne and Celeste lyrics, we have been spending most of this relatively quiet work day firing emails around containing song lyrics, and we have sunk as far as this. To be fair though, it doesn't get much better than "You got facial hair like a polar bear".

[theboymoon]

Fair play....
But now that bloody song is stuck in my head!
Moonie

[moleamol]

Nevin said: Moleamol, the simplest solutions are always the best and my homepage has now returned to normal. Thank you all.

As for the Daphne and Celeste lyrics, we have been spending most of this relatively quiet work day firing emails around containing song lyrics, and we have sunk as far as this. To be fair though, it doesn't get much better than "You got facial hair like a polar bear".

Glad I could be of service . As for song lyrics, what about that bint from whatthefrigaretheycalled who sang 'Midnight at the Oasis' with the classic line 'Sing your camel to bed'

Edit: Good luck getting the bugger out of your head if you know which song I mean

>> Edited by moleamol on Tuesday 22 October 16:21

[Nevin]

Brand New Heavies I think

[anonymous-user]

Maria Muldaur originally in '74 then Brand New Heavies covered it in 1994.

[Nevin]

I am been shown for the fool I really am. Unfortunately, my music knowledge extends back about as far as 1985 and not much earlier, so I wouldn't have know that. I'll rest assured in the presumption that the verision being thought of was probably the Brand New Heavies version.