Incredimail – how to get rid of the start page

A few days ago, my sister-in-law sent me an email telling me that she had installed IncrediMail, a fun email client but hadn’t liked it and then uninstalled it. Problem was that, no matter what she tried, her browser still opened on IncrediMail’s home page  http://www.incredimail.com/english/splash.aspx . Could I suggest anything?

Now my sister-in-law is pretty cluey about PC stuff, and had combed the web for fixes already. I was soon doing the same and found all kinds of people saying that this software was harder to eradicate than bamboo roots. All kinds of radical suggestions are floating around, from running anti spyware and anti adware programs to Brute Force Uninstallers to uninstalling your email client (after saving your favourites) to delving into the Windows registry to dig up the last remaining roots.

Delving into the Windows registry is a bit like an archaeology dig: if you’re not careful, you can accidentally break something very precious. Best not to go there unless you’re an MVP (Microsoft Valued Professional). And, whatever IncrediMail is, it’s not spyware or adware, so you can run scanner until the cows come home and it won’t change anything.

I’ve done searches on these kinds of problems before and usually a consensus emerges around a particular solution. Not so in this case, and that puzzled me. In the end I said to sis-in-law: have you tried changing the homepage of your browser? She hadn’t, and it got rid of the problem. I felt stupid for not asking that as the first question – I assumed she had ...

Here’s how, and it’s dead simple:

1. In Internet Explorer, go to the website you’d like to make your home page
2. click the TOOLS tab > Internet Options> and this is what you should see
3. Click on USE CURRENT

 

If your use Firefox, it’s just as easy:

1. Go to the website you’d like to make your home page
2. click on the TOOLS tab > Options > General
3. Click on USE CURRENT

There you go

Kim