I'd like to set two different home page tabs to come up in IE7 when our users open up the their browser. We can't figure out how to make the home page settings work for anybody who logs onto the computer.
Is there somewhere in the registry and allows a person to do that?
The only thing I have seen in the registry for default home pages will only allow us to set one home page.
I think I understand your question. Load Internet Explorer 7, then click on Tools, and then Internet Options.
In the General tab there is a big box at the top for Home page settings. As the instructions say, "To create home page tabs, type each address on its own line".
So if you want Google and Yahoo to open when you first load Internet Explorer 7, you need to type this in the box:
http://www.google.com/
http://www.yahoo.com/
There is a registry key to set the initial home page, as well as one to set secondary home pages:
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main\Start Page]
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main\Secondary Start Pages]
Likewise, there's a default page and secondary page for the machine (it's called Secondary_Page, but it lets you set multiple):
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main\Default_Page_URL]
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main\Default_Secondary_Page_URL]
So presumably you could write a script to set either of these pairs of keys at startup.
