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Since I installed VISTA with IE 7.0, every time I open IE 7.0 I get MSN.com as my home page. I have changed it several times and when I say to remove the home page, it asks me if I want to delete About:Blank as my home page. Unfortunately, I can not remove it. I did not have About:Blank on my PC before I installed Vista. So much for better security. Any ideas about removing it? I tried HiJackThis but it doesn't even show up. -- Joe EL

"AboutBlank" refers to openning IE with a blank home page, which is exactly what you are telling it to do when you delete the only other home page.
Try going into the tools menu and seeing if you can change your homepage there. Usually what I do is go to the page I want as my home page, then go to Tools>Internet Options. The first thing you will see is the General tab, and up near the top there is a button that says "Use Current" Try pressing that one.
"joe63" wrote in message

Since I installed VISTA with IE 7.0, every time I open IE 7.0 I get MSN.com as my home page. I have changed it several times and when I say to remove the home page, it asks me if I want to delete About:Blank as my home page. Unfortunately, I can not remove it. I did not have About:Blank on my PC before I installed Vista. So much for better security. Any ideas about removing it? I tried HiJackThis but it doesn't even show up. -- Joe EL

I know about that and it did not work. But I did fix it just before you sent me the reply. I kept repeatedly deleting home page and all home pages and eventually I got a blank page and then I added a new home page. It was a lot more complicated than XP. There is a nightmare adware browser hijacker called About:Blank and I thought it was this. Thanks for your help. Joe EL
"Mark D. VandenBerg" wrote:

"AboutBlank" refers to openning IE with a blank home page, which is exactly what you are telling it to do when you delete the only other home page.
Try going into the tools menu and seeing if you can change your homepage there. Usually what I do is go to the page I want as my home page, then go to Tools>Internet Options. The first thing you will see is the General tab, and up near the top there is a button that says "Use Current" Try pressing that one.
"joe63" wrote in message Since I installed VISTA with IE 7.0, every time I open IE 7.0 I get MSN.com as my home page. I have changed it several times and when I say to remove the home page, it asks me if I want to delete About:Blank as my home page. Unfortunately, I can not remove it. I did not have About:Blank on my PC before I installed Vista. So much for better security. Any ideas about removing it? I tried HiJackThis but it doesn't even show up. -- Joe EL

Glad you have it working now, Joe.
"joe63" wrote in message

I know about that and it did not work. But I did fix it just before you sent me the reply. I kept repeatedly deleting home page and all home pages and eventually I got a blank page and then I added a new home page. It was a lot more complicated than XP. There is a nightmare adware browser hijacker called About:Blank and I thought it was this. Thanks for your help. Joe EL