Tech Tip for Writers #42: How to (Re)Set Your Homepage
As a working technology teacher, I get hundreds of questions from parents about their home computers, how to do stuff, how to solve problems. Each Tuesday, I'll share one of those with you. They're always brief and always focused. Enjoy!
Q: My homepage got hijacked! I mean, it no longer opens up to what it used to. How do I fix that?
A: Go to the page you want as your homepage. Here's what you do next:
If you're in Firefox, go to Tools–Options
Click on General
Click the button that says, Use Current
Say OK
If you use IE:
Go to Tools–Internet Options
Click on General
Click the button that says, Use Current
Say OK
One more step–make sure your firewall is working. Run Spybot and Adaware and your anti-virus program. Something got through that shouldn't have and you don't want it to happen again–or have a worse outcome than your homepage changing.
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Jacqui Murray is the editor of a technology curriculum for K-fifth grade and creator of two technology training books for middle school. She is the author of Building a Midshipman, the story of her daughter's journey from high school to United States Naval Academy midshipman. She is webmaster for five blogs, an Amazon Vine Voice book reviewer, a columnist for Examiner.com, Editorial Review Board member for Journal for Computing Teachers, IMS tech expert, and a weekly contributor to Write Anything and Technology in Education. Currently, she's editing a thriller for her agent that should be be out to publishers this summer. Contact Jacqui at her writing office or her tech lab, Ask a Tech Teacher.
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