Dave, how do I get rid of or uninstall MSN.com home page? I want Yahoo but everytime I change it to Yahoo.com that darn MSN.COM home page comes back. It’s a pain.
There are a few reasons for this. The first is that you have selected your home page with a link rather than within your software. Most people who do this within their browser settings can have fewer problems. We would know more about your problem if we knew what browser you were using, whether you are using MSN software, etc. The MSN software, for example, may have a hidden setting that “hijacks” your homepage.
In Firefox (or Mozilla or Netscape), go to your desired homepage and select Tools –> Options –> General. Then select “use current page.”
In IE, it is very similar. Go to your desired homepage, select Tools –> Internet Options –> General. Select “use current page.”
If this does not solve your problem, then what you might have is a more complicated issue that involves spyware or the MSN software itself. Many spyware programs have scripts that hijack your homepage to something that they want. The puzzling thing is that you don’t generally see a piece of software hijacking to the MSN site. That’s why it may be an MSN setting. When possible, I set up my internet connections to work independent of the branded software; in most cases, the branded software is full of bloated settings that can do things like take your homepage. I am not familiar enough with the MSN software to say. If you are on a dialup connection, you could simply look up your phone number and create a dialup connection that works by itself. You can do this by going into your control panel, selecting network connections, and selecting “create a new connection.” There is a wizard that will walk you through this process.
If it is spyware, you need to go to sections of Ask Dave Taylor and others that discuss in excellent detail how to identify and remove spyware.
It worked but my firefox browser started lagging and really struggled after doing this but after refreshing firefox problems sorted and no more MSN new, thanks Dave.
I have been told that the only way to rid myself of that garbage dump called MSN is to eliminate/stop using Outlook. I am going to try that.
I have tried changing things and sending feedback. MSN doesn’t care what WE want, we’re only pawns in their advertising revenue stream. Hopefully windows 10 is about to dump outlook!!
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My names Keith McClay, & i want to get bing & Msn off as my toolbar & put yahoo.com toolbar there instead TY
It’s a malware.
Use “JRT by malwarebytes” and “adw cleaner” anti-malware softwares. Both are free and easy to use.
It worked for me very well.
Just google it.
Hope your problem is solved. 🙂
PlEASE CANCEL MSN AS HOMEPAGE IN CHROME BROWSER, I DONT LIKE IN HEBREW
Now that I’ve dumped MSN, how do I get rid of ‘Ask Dave Taylor’ as a homepage?
Get rid of? Egads, man! Actually, just go to your Preferences or Settings in your Web browser and designate a different home page. If you must. 🙂
i customized my home page, yours come up first can you rid of. customized page aquarius horoscope not capricorn. please help me.
Sorry, but I need more direction than that. I have no idea how to do that.
Lesley, check the settings in MSIE to see what’s set as the “home page URL”. I bet it’s not what you want…
How do I get rid of this page? I googled it once and now every time I open Internet Explorer this page pops up too. Annoying!
Go to regedit. Find Zugo in HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE and delete it completely.
Dave, how do I get rid of or uninstall MSN.com home page? I want Yahoo but everytime I change it to Yahoo.com that darn MSN.COM home page comes back. It’s a pain.
Thank you, kk – I managed to get rid of MSN by doing what you suggested!
Dave,
I found the spyware removal tool I downloaded (Stopzilla) hijacked my browser to MSN and has a setting called Homepage Protection hidden deep within its configuration settings that prevented me from changing back to my preferred browser. I’m sure others who have this problem may find that a recently downloaded spyware (or similar) software has this same ‘functionality’.
Thank you Dave.
I was going crazy. I have had my home page for
8 years and all of a suddin it was gone. I had
MSN. What is it with this MSN? I see that alot
of other people are having the same problem.
But with your help I got it back.
Thank you again
Cathy
wow i failed to get thru. Dear Dave, hope this works this time. msn, like all the others is my home page, i did not ask for it. please help me. thank you. Janet
i don’t know why msn became my home page–i do not want it–tell me how to get rid of it….PLEASE, thanks
Click on Start -> run -> type regedit
Registry editor opens click on Edit -> Find -> search for start page.
Right click on Start page Key and select modify
Change the value to the home page you desire.
Hi there I am visiting South Africa and when I ma back home in the US my homepage is MSN USA. I have been here about 4 weeks and just suddenly it autom automatically goes to the local MSN which is real frustrating. I have gone to internet options and typed in MSN.com clicked apply and Ok and when I click on the browser to open my internet it goes to http://www.howzitmsn.com Please advise how I can go back to my USA homepage. Thanks Fiona
I do not want facebook as my home page
the easy solution (for those of us who aren’t geeks and are smart enough not to mess with regedit or whatever it’s called) is to go to yahoo.com and download their version of Internet Explorer. this will “overwrite” (or whatever happens) the msn version of IE on your system and stop it from rearing its ugly head.
if it’s not yahoo’s IE you want back, I can’t help you.
What are the advantages of upgrading to IE-8?
HOW DO I GET RID OF THIS PAGE???
Thank you for getting rid of MSN from my computer.
How do I get rid of you?
Why does “https://www.askdavetaylor.com/how_do_i_get_rid_of_msn_as_my_home_page.html” always show up on my Firefox home page? Please help me get rid of this annoyance.
Lois
I do not like the new msn home page and woukd like to see the old one come back. Is there antway to get the old home page back as i liked it alot better than now thank you
I’ll have my msn homepage (David’s Page) all set up and it will work fine weeks or months. Then it will suddenly go back to the msn home page. Sometimes it will suddenly revert back to David’s Page. But usually I’ll have to use the msn homepage to gradually reconstruct a David’s Page which still has the msn homepage ad in upper right corner. Then the ad will suddenly disappear and all will be well for a while. Then it suddenly reverts back to the msn homepage and I have to start all over again. Or David’s Page may suddenly reappear. Yet all the time my internet options home page tab setting is the same.
help me please i downloaded the new msn and i can not get on it it isnt on my screen not on start and it is not at the botton right hand corner of my compter help me how do i get on the new msn ???
HOW CAN I SAVE MY MSN FAVORITES WHEN CHANGING COMPUTERS?
when i am browsing my my msn keeps goimg to msn games home page then i hav to go back to to msn home and start again . then while i browse it goes to msn shopping and again i have to start over . now it goes to msnbc as i browse . please help it drivin me crazy
it really helps!!thanks!!!
If you are finding that whatever you do, the internet explorer browser keeps defaulting your homepage to MSN then this is for you.
goto your IE icon and rightclick – properties –
look for “target” it should have the location for IE. It will look something like this : “C:\Program Files (x86)\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe”
now add this to the end of the location “http://google.co.uk”, so it reads like this : “C:\Program Files (x86)\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe” http://google.co.uk
save and run, hey presto – fixed.
child has changed home page and every time I make
you home page it goes back to his on log-in
I use google as my home page but I get the MSN home page ???
um yeh i got the same problem and i did what you said but when you press home it goes to another homepage. Grrrr. Very Annoying. Please Help!
I don’t know what I did but I Managed to get MSN off as my main page, and i can not figure out how to get it back on. can you please help me figure it out by telling me step by step. you can email mail me at trinitynight79@hotmail.com
hi,
i am trying to get rid of msn, but had no luck. could you help me please.
thanks betty
I am having the same problem. Yesterday when i turned my computer on lo and behold MSN popped in as my internet and email and I didn’t do it, not did I want it. What happened?
Praise GOD thanks Curtis!!! that was driving me nucking futs
I got the same problem when i oppened the IE but if you right click on IE and go to properties then in target pannel paste this:
“C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe” http://www.google.com
that worked for me thank you all
For those who dont like editing the registry,the quickest and most direct fix I have found involves using the Group Policy Editor.
While this may sound complicated, it’s not. In fact, it’s remarkably easy.
Click on Start then Run and type gpedit.msc in the run box and hit enter. This will bring up the GPE.
In the left pane of the window that pops up double click on Computer Configuration, Administrative Templates, Windows Components and finally Internet Explorer.
Look in the right window pane and find Prevent performance of First Run Customize settings and double click it. Change the setting to Enabled and chose Go directly to home page from the drop down window next to “Select your choice.”
Click OK. Now repeat the same procedure in User Configuration and once you restart Internet Explorer, it should take you directly to your home page
For those who have the Runonce problem after they upgrade to IE7, check this out:
http://borris83.googlepages.com/ie7startsupwithabluescreenandsays'erroronpage'atthebottom
how do i get msn as my homepage
i was wondering how do i get rid of msn as my homepage. It’s a pain!! I was using internet explorer with google as my home page, but now it does let it go back. The msn come back every time. Can you help me please. Thanks! Emi
“C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe” http://www.google.com
This one worked for me………..Thanks a lot!
plEASE CANCEL MSN AS HOMEPAGE
Iam not a computer wizard, in fact email is about all I can do. Just recently at&t yahoo had us install norton free, from them. It is working okay but now when I put my msn on and try to go to hotmail I get a pop up window stating:
there was a problem sending the comand to the program. But, it still caonnects to the hotmail.
I don’t know if the norton installation had anything to do with it, but it is becoing very annoying. Can you help me get rid of it?
thanks
grandma of eleven
Thanks Curtis for the Norton fix for the homepage – saved me a lot of time and it was something I never would have thought of.
Is it true?
Thank you sooo much sue!
I had been struggling with this problem for the last few weeks, and i’ve done everything humanly possible. I own a Lenovo thinkpad and for anyone who has an IBM or Lenovo with Access Connections, go into the profile and uncheck the “override homepage” box. Works wonders!
I found my solutionon another forum posted by kjjb0204 …. “What kind of pc or notebook do you have and are you using that vendors’ network connections software or Windows network connections? On my Lenovo (formerly IBM) ThinkCentre and ThinkPads, the IBM network connections profiles have an entry that override any browser home page setting. I had to go in there and change in the connection profile, then it always works, no matter what I set it to in IE.”
worked for me.