[mr__roarke]

Both IE and FF homepages are set to www.yahoo.com

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Try to reset them to "blank". Restart browser. If "blank" loads up, change it back to whatever you want. Restart browser.

[Broni]

Try to reset them to "blank". Restart browser. If "blank" loads up, change it back to whatever you want. Restart browser.

[mr__roarke]

didn't work on either browser.

[Broni]

Close Firefox. Go Start>All Programs>Mozilla Firefox, click on Mozilla Firefox (safe mode). Same thing?

Close IE.
Go Start>All Programs>Accessories>System Tools, and click on Internet Explorer (no add-ons). Same thing?

[mr__roarke]

FF goes directly to the default Mozilla page. IE goes to "http://-extoff%22/"

[Broni]

I'm not sure about IE, which I don't use at all, but it looks like FF behaves correctly in Safe Mode.
It looks like you have some add-on, or theme issue.
You'll need to investigate a little.
Start FF normally. If you don't use FF default mode, switch to it, and set FF home page as "blank".
FF will need to restart to change theme.
After doing so, go Tools>Add-ons, and disable them all.
Restart, and see, if FF goes to "blank" page, not to file:///C:/Program%20Files/Mozilla%20Firefox/
Good, so far?
If so, enable ONE add-on (I'd start with toolbars, if you have any extra toolbars installed).
Restart.
Good?
If so, enable next add-on, and so on.....

[mr__roarke]

Default mode?

[Broni]

Sorry...default theme/skin.

[mr__roarke]

Ok, the default theme was already loaded. I went into the add ons and disabled everything. Still goes to the program files location.

Don't have any toolbars installed.

[Broni]

Check your settings, as described here: http://kb.mozillazin..._file_-_Firefox in paragraphs File Types edit, and Registry edit

[mr__roarke]

Did what the page said for the File Types edit, but when I went to the registry edit, i got the following error:

Registry Editor

Cannot import : Error opening the file. There may be a disk or file system error.

[Broni]

When trying to open regedit?

[mr__roarke]

Yeah. I ran scandisk at startup and i don't think it found anything (there was no report). So, that can't be good.

[Broni]

This is strange. The above error may pop-up, when you try to run some reg file, but not when you try open registry editor.
Using Windows Explorer, go to C:\Windows, and double click on regedit.exe

[mr__roarke]

Same error

Also, on an odd note, I cannot open the date/time properties by clicking on the clock. If I right click on the clock and select adjust date/time it does nothing.

We also opened up Hotmail and an installer opened that said that was going to repair windows live messenger. I closed the installer and it gave a wierd error. SpySweeper blocked some browser objects from being added, so I'm sure that was the reason for the error.

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