[nfbcs] Google is taking over my PC!

[Tracy Carcione]

Wahoo!  That did the trick!  Thanks Lloyd.
Tracy


> 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
>
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