Internet Explorer Start Page

Gort9k · Post by **Gort9k** » Tue Jul 10, 2007 7:10 pm

I am a spaniard, living in Spain. And I want I. Explorer to open with http://www.msn.com. But no matter what I try it always defaults to http://www.latino.msn.com. I am more than fed up with this annoying behaviour.
The same applies to google. Whenever I try google.com I get google.es.
I've been tinkering with the registry. And I've changed the star page but to no avail.
Is there a way to teach manners to Internet Explorer and make it open the page that I want and not the page it thinks I should get?

Thanks

dsl-jds · Post by **dsl-jds** » Tue Jul 10, 2007 9:39 pm

I can't answer your question, but have you tried an alternative browser, such as Firefox?

TonyT · Post by **TonyT** » Wed Jul 11, 2007 6:34 am

Try changing the default character set used by the browser. View Menu > Encoding

ARS · Post by **ARS** » Wed Jul 11, 2007 8:57 am

is it possible that the ISP has set it up to redirect you to the .es domain instead of the .com on certain pages?

Rainbow · Post by **Rainbow** » Wed Jul 11, 2007 9:56 am

ARS wrote:is it possible that the ISP has set it up to redirect you to the .es domain instead of the .com on certain pages?

Thats very possible, I have used different proxies from india etc and when you go to google.com you get google india

ARS · Post by **ARS** » Wed Jul 11, 2007 10:27 am

Test: http://www.proxication.com/ try browsing one of the problem sites with the proxy.

You can always call your ISP and bs with them.

TonyT · Post by **TonyT** » Wed Jul 11, 2007 12:26 pm

use this as the MSN homepage:
http://207.68.172.246
and for google English use any of these:
http://72.14.207.99
http://64.233.167.99
http://64.233.187.99

ARS · Post by **ARS** » Wed Jul 11, 2007 1:47 pm

Good one Tony. Is this why we keep you around? I am still pondering why... Ken isn't releasing any information.

nj

Gort9k · Post by **Gort9k** » Wed Jul 11, 2007 5:44 pm

Thanks a lot for your answers. I've tried and installed Firefox, and now I can get http://www.msn.com. But only with Firefox; Internet explorer keeps stubbornly giving me that latino thing.

In case of google thins remain the same. In Firefox and I.E. I always get google.es.

Ok, thanks to everyone

TonyT · Post by **TonyT** » Wed Jul 11, 2007 7:56 pm

Did you try the ip addresses I posted?
Using the ip address bypasses the isp DNS and goes directly to the url.
Also, once you get to Google, you can choose your preferences that get stored in a cookie.

Gort9k · Post by **Gort9k** » Thu Jul 12, 2007 10:36 am

TonyT:
I've tried with the ips that you suggested. But they doesn't seem to work. Whenever I use them in Internet Explorer, the browser redirects me to that latino msn page and to spanish google.
As I've already said is in Firefox where I can get "msn.com".
Thanks again TonyT

TonyT · Post by **TonyT** » Thu Jul 12, 2007 2:26 pm

I love problems like this!
Go to control panel > internet options >connections tab > lan settings.
Are you using a proxy?

Also, post a HijackThis scan log, it will show any internal browser redirects that can be fixed. HijackThis:
http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/prog ... hijackthis

Gort9k · Post by **Gort9k** » Fri Jul 13, 2007 9:07 am

Here we go, TonyT:

Let me explain it slow and thoroughly (I wish my English was a bit better, but..)
At home I've got a desktop pc and a laptop, the laptop being an Acer, I don't give details on the pc as it isn't a known brand. It was custom assembled; asus mobo and so on...
Both of them have had Windows XP Pro recently installed (last tuesday, to be precise). The same O.S. in the two machines.
I am quite sure that it is not a matter of a virus or a troyan.
The two computers have Internet Explorer and Firefox installed. I prefer Firefox, and use IE. for certain pages that don't like Firefox.
In the pc I get http://www.msn.com with no trouble at all; whether I use Firefox or IE.
But google always defaults to google.es instead of google.com.
The laptot gives me http://www.msn.com with Firefox, and http://www.latino.msn.com with IE. And, like the desktop pc, there is no way to get google.com.
There are no proxies.
As Rainbow pointed before, in the google case, it could be that Spanish ISPs automatically redirects google.com calls to google.es. But why do I get msn.com in the pc (with IE.) and ca not get it in the laptop?
Of course, it is not a matter of life or death, just annoying, weird, strange....