Stuck in a restrictive environment where you can’t alter your homepage settings? Check out the below WSH shell script to alter your homepage in Internet Explorer via the registry:

Set WSHShell = WScript.CreateObject(“WScript.Shell”)
‘ home page URL
StartPage = “http://www.yaduk.co.uk”
WSHShell.RegWrite “HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main\Start Page”, StartPage
WSHShell.RegWrite “HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main\Start Page”, StartPage

Stick in a text file with the extension .vbs

Found yourself in a strictly locked down Windows desktop environment? Hate those sodding grouped windows on the taskbar and can’t get rid of them? Try out the below code by saving in a .vbs file and double-clicking to ungroup your windows. To group again, just re-launch the script.

There are other more complex variations out there such as those found at http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_tweaks.htm but this script simply hits the nail on the head.