April 06, 2009

Auto Shortcut Trouble with Internet Explorer

Once again I am here to post an issue but, I am really sorry to all readers of this blog because it took long to post something here.

I got a complaint regarding Internet Explorer. The machine installed Windows XP SP2 with Internet Explorer 6.0 version. That machine badly infected with some virus/malware. So, whenever user hit Internet Explorer's icon of desktop, every time it created shortcut of Internet Explorer instead of opened a browser page. I tried to remove it but malware edited machine's registry entry which belonged to Internet Explorer. So, I couldn't find "Open Home Page" option on right click of Internet Explorer's icon. You can see screen shot of infected Internet Explorer below.

How to restore this trouble?
You can also restore Internet Explorer's this trouble with help of registry editor. Type following text in notepad or copy-paste it then save it with .reg extension. Then simply run/merge it. It will restore above trouble with Internet Explorer.

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{871C5380-42A0-1069-A2EA-08002B30309D}\shell]
@="OpenHomePage"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{871C5380-42A0-1069-A2EA-08002B30309D}\shell\OpenHomePage]
@="Open &Home Page"
"MUIVerb"="@shdoclc.dll,-10241"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{871C5380-42A0-1069-A2EA-08002B30309D}\shell\OpenHomePage\Command]
@=hex(2):22,00,43,00,3a,00,5c,00,50,00,72,00,6f,00,67,00,72,00,61,00,6d,00,20,\
00,46,00,69,00,6c,00,65,00,73,00,5c,00,49,00,6e,00,74,00,65,00,72,00,6e,00,\
65,00,74,00,20,00,45,00,78,00,70,00,6c,00,6f,00,72,00,65,00,72,00,5c,00,69,\
00,65,00,78,00,70,00,6c,00,6f,00,72,00,65,00,2e,00,65,00,78,00,65,00,22,00,\
00,00


Wanna make a Trick...??
Well.. you can play this trick with your friends and hide "Open Home Page" option from Internet Explorer's icon (please see screen shot below) and scare him/her.

For this, just type following text in notepad or copy-paste it then save it with .reg extension. Then simply run/merge it. It will remove "open Home Page" option from Internet Explorer.

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[-HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{871C5380-42A0-1069-A2EA-08002B30309D}\shell]
@="OpenHomePage"

[-HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{871C5380-42A0-1069-A2EA-08002B30309D}\shell\OpenHomePage]
@="Open &Home Page"
"MUIVerb"="@shdoclc.dll,-10241"

[-HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{871C5380-42A0-1069-A2EA-08002B30309D}\shell\OpenHomePage\Command]
@=hex(2):22,00,43,00,3a,00,5c,00,50,00,72,00,6f,00,67,00,72,00,61,00,6d,00,20,\
00,46,00,69,00,6c,00,65,00,73,00,5c,00,49,00,6e,00,74,00,65,00,72,00,6e,00,\
65,00,74,00,20,00,45,00,78,00,70,00,6c,00,6f,00,72,00,65,00,72,00,5c,00,69,\
00,65,00,78,00,70,00,6c,00,6f,00,72,00,65,00,2e,00,65,00,78,00,65,00,22,00,\
00,00