[nfbcs] Google is taking over my PC!

[Lloyd Rasmussen]

Perhaps you need to press ctrl-E.  I think that this is the shortcut that 
turns your search bar on and off.  You may have set up Google as your 
preferred search provider for IE.

At 08:24 AM 12/10/2009, you wrote:
>I did that, first thing.  It didn't work. I hit the blank homepage button,
>then Apply, then OK, and this darned Google is still there next time I
>open IE.
>
>Tracy
>
> > easy -- just go to internet options on the control panel. The home page is
> > the first setting on the general tab.  Be sure to tab to ok and select to
> > be
> > sure your changes are registered.
> > --le
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Tracy Carcione" <carcione at access.net>
> > To: <nfbcs at nfbnet.org>
> > Sent: Thursday, December 10, 2009 6:52 AM
> > Subject: [nfbcs] Google is taking over my PC!
> >
> >
> > Help!  Google is taking over!
> > Well OK, not totally, but still...as of a couple days ago, whenever I open
> > Internet Explorer, Google comes up as my home page.  And it's not even
> > regular Google, because, when I put something in to search for, and the
> > links come up, I can't actually choose any of them.
> > I went to Internet Options and selected blank as my homepage, which is
> > what I want, and what it's been for a long time.  I uninstalled something
> > called Google AFE. I've tried to find if there's a file called "blank"
> > that might have gotten taken over somehow, but I don't find one.
> > How can I get IE to open with my blank homepage, like it always used to
> > do?  And where is this darned Google page coming from?
> >
> > My husband also uses this PC, and Goodness knows what he may have clicked
> > on by accident, but I should still be able to reset it.
> > Sure hope some of you smart people have some ideas.  I feel like Big
> > Brother is breathing down my neck.
> > Tracy

Lloyd Rasmussen, Senior Project Engineer, Engineering Section
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