in reply to How to turn off a designated IE homepage with perl?

Your question seems to have caused some confusion. Do you want to know how to alter the default start page for Internet Explorer? Perhaps altering the registry key would work:

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main] "Start Page"="http://www.perlmonks.org"

See CPAN for registry editing modules.

Note that such changes may be blown away by logon/start up scripts depending on your environment, and you may not have sufficient privileges to edit the registry.

Martin

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