[mattbro75]

I run XP on my system with two different user accounts, both of which are registered as "Administrator Accounts".

I've been doing some recent upgrades to the security on my machine and have somehow inadvertantly created a non-wanted result.

When using IE, one of the administrator accounts (we'll say account B) cannot access TOOLS>INTERNET OPTIONS. I double checked to see that the account was still admin, and can verify that. If I use that account and go to CONTROL PANEL>Internet Options I can access them there, but the one thing I cannot do is change the home page. I would like to change the home page.

Until recently either logged in user had the ability to do this.

I recently installed: Sygate, Jv16, Adaware, Tauscan, 3dmark, pcmark, cacheman, bootvis, and mvsoft.

I also did some tweaks scaling back some of the annoying Windows options that can slow down a system. disable indexing, killed many windows sounds, greatly paired the startup list, things like that.

Any idea what I could have done, or what could have occured that caused this?

What setting could effect this?

Please help!

[buddhafabio]

in the control panel what you need is under administrative tools

[putasolution]

Try this

Go to Start | Run
Type in Regedit

Find the following key in the left pane

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Restrictions

In the right pane look for NoBrowserOptions
If No BrowserOptions exists, right click it and click Delete
Restart your computer

If it doesn't exist, it is possible that the Inetcpl.cpl is either missing or damaged

Insert you XP disk
Open All Programs | Accessories | Command prompt
Type SFC /scannow
It may take a few minutes to replace the file

[mattbro75]

Thanks putasolution!

I did in fact have the nobrowseroptions key in reg. Deleted it and now have access to my internet options right from IE! YAY!

One thing I still cannot do is change my home page. That section is still shaded. Any ideas?

[mattbro75]

Just needed to delete a few more keys. Default_page_url in all my main threads. That did it. Thanks a million!