How do I change O2 Internet Explorer default from O2's site? [Archive]

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hazer

30th November 2005, 03:58 AM

I can't seem to figure out how to change that button left of space bar so that it launches IE to my home page (Google).

Everytime I click it, it goes to O2's pda site.

Any tips?

Thx.

christopherwoods

30th November 2005, 04:06 AM

It'll be in the registry, can't be arsed to look now :P

But if you copy the \windows\default.htm file (the web page you see when you open PIE every time) to your PC, you can open it up in Notepad and put a link to Google - meaning you can just click on the link on the page instead of click on the home page button whenever you want to go to Google.

The right HTML for that is

Go to Google (http://google.com/pda)

Just put that in anywhere (so long as it's inbetween the <body> and </body> tags, easiest way is to just paste that code in right before the </body> tag, which will put the link at the bottom of the page anyway.

That's one quick-and-dirty way of hacking the web page to show a link to Google - once you've done that and saved the modified page on your PC, just replace the html file on your PC with the copy in the \windows directory on your XDA.

Job's a good un!

oltp

30th November 2005, 09:34 AM

Look for the dword 'home' with value 'file://\Windows\default.htm' in key AboutURLs

Cheers, M

rilot

30th November 2005, 10:55 AM

Look at the wiki. It's exlpained in there.

To save you the trouble: Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\HARDWARE\OEM\KEYBD and change the key to whatever you want.

christopherwoods

30th November 2005, 08:55 PM

Thanks for following up with more definitive answers guys (I actually like hacking the O2 start page, call me weird) - I just didn't have the mental capacity to go sifting through the registry once more at 5am on a Thursday morning. ;)