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Resetting my homepage.
louise1966
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I have lost my homepage, by installing a programme - now deleted - and want to get it back. This has happened before and I have managed to solve it. A medical problem affects my memory so, although sometimes I can recall what to do, right now I cannot. I know what I have to do but am using Firefox and cannot remember where I find tools in my browser. Can anyone help? I have tried changing it by going into control panel and, although I am entering the correct address (yahoo), it is not installing. Thanks.
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https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/How%20to%20set%20the%20home%20page
The reason going in via Control Panel had no effect was because you are using Firefox. Control Panel only affects Internet Explorer.
Each browser you use has it's own way of handling the settings. And although you can often get one browser to import settings and the like from another browser they are independent of each other. So changing one browser's settings has no effect on any other. Unless you repeat any import process manually. Or make the equivalent change separately in each browser.
Oh and on the subject of menus. If you are using a recent version of Firefox with the orange box up in the top left of the browser window where it says Firefox and a down pointing arrow, just click on that orange box and the essential menu items drop down
That includes easy access to the Options box where you change the settings for Firefox.
chrisjr.
You need to do some reading
OK. Tell me where in control panel
As far as I am aware control panel only shows how Windows looks not internet explorer
See
http://pcsupport.about.com/od/tipstricks/tp/control-panel-applets-list.03.htm
chrisjr is correct and this is how it looks on my PC (Classic View)
http://postimg.org/image/uo9mv62k7/
So, that's how the homepage(s) for IE can be set through Control Panel.
However, the OP stated that she was using Firefox and the only ways that the Firefox homepage(s) can be set/changed are as shown in the link in post 2 - Control Panel has no effect in the context of the original question
In IE just go to tools & click internet options
Like wise in Firefox, click tools & then options