I\u2019ve been struggling for a whole night to fix my Internet Explorer\u2019s home page. I will mark down my experience here:<\/p>\n
The problem: the home page of IE keep changing back to some website after I set it as blank. Changing the home page in registry shows access denied. Changing the privilege of the home page key in registry shows access denied. (even though I run regedit.exe as Administrator) Uninstall IE8 and install IE9 doesn\u2019t fix the problem either. I can\u2019t find any spy software or whatever harmful program. <\/p>\n
After crazily searching throw Internet for a whole night, I find a simple solution:<\/p>\n
1. Right click the key you want to take ownership of. <\/p>\n
The key for home page of IE is HKEY_CURRENT_USER\\Software\\Microsoft\\Internet Explorer\\Main\\Start Page<\/p>\n
And I find the whole folder has problem of changing privilege, so the key I want to take ownership of is HKEY_CURRENT_USER\\Software\\Microsoft\\Internet Explorer\\Main\\<\/p>\n
2. Click Permissions \u2013 Advanced \u2013 Owner Tab<\/font><\/p>\n 3. Under Change owner to, click the new owner (your user account), and then OK.<\/font><\/p>\n After that, I can successfully change the privilege of the key to full control. And then I can change the Start Page to what ever I want. And I find that changing the home page in IE directly success, too. <\/font><\/p>\n