IE8 welcome screen 1

[pechenegs]

Everytime I start IE8 it always goes to the welcome to IE8 and asks me to input my preferences? How do I stop this?

cheers!

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[BillyRayPreachersSon]

I found that once you input your preferences and save them, it shouldn't ask you again.

So, have you tried saving your preferences?

Also, do you have admin rights?

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[pechenegs]

well that's just it, I do everyhting all the way to finish and then it pops up again the next time I start IE8!

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[smah]

This should take care of you

http://www.winhelponline.com/blog/disable-ie8-tour-welcome-screen-runonce-all-users/

 

[pechenegs]

thanx Smah, worked a treat, thx for that and a star for you!

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[smah]

Hi pechenegs, I'm glad it worked. Since I know that you work with many third party security tools, I just wanted to point out that this condition (and many similar ones) are often caused by 3rd party security utilities. While the intent is good - to protect these registry keys from changes caused by malware, some inadvertently also 'protect' these keys from being changed as required for normal operation.

 

[pechenegs]

Yes I agree, I did tend to play with a lot of HIPS programs and probably uninstalled one forgetting to switch off it's features, which has meant no run written to the registry.

However, I have uninstalled all HIPS ( apart from online armor which I got a free years subscription for Online armor's security suite of Firewall, anti virus and HIPS ) and my machine is a lot faster, I guess I'll either have to live with it or reinstall!

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