Comments on: Set IE default home page from a script

By: Steve Wiseman

Steve Wiseman — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 13:08:53 +0000

Hello Tim,

Thanks for taking the time to post this.

By: Tim

Tim — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 03:44:28 +0000

And here is how it should actually look:

@echo off set key="HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main" set value="Start Page" set data="%1" reg.exe add %key% /v %value% /d %data% /f

Note the “” around the %1

By: Jan

Jan — Thu, 30 Sep 2010 20:45:02 +0000

So how would I create a shortcut that would change my home and then start explorer?

By: Chris

Chris — Wed, 29 Sep 2010 00:33:15 +0000

Thanks for the assist.

But your example is a little off and it took me a little while to debug. First, path you showed has spaces (‘Internet Explorer’) So the path should be enclosed in double quotes. Also, the parameters are not delimited correctly. Need to remove the quotes from there. Here is what I got to work:

@echo off
set key=”HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main”
set value=”Start page”
set data=%1
reg.exe add %key% /v %value% /d %data% /f

By: Craig

Craig — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 03:06:52 +0000

What adjustments to this script (which works great for IE8 on Win7) are required to run under Citrix?