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LeapingTortoise
Hi,
I've seen several posts (none newer than a few months/years old) where people have had the MSN webpage pop up on startup. I am having this problem that started immediately after the 1909 update earlier this month.
Behaviour:
- On startup Windows will launch my default browser and open msn.com
- This occurs regardless of browser. Firefox is my default but if I change to Edge or Chrome as the default the page opens in these browsers.
Attempted remedies (none successful):
- Changing my home page (It never has, nor will ever be 'MSN' I changed it from 'Blank' to google.com and restart.
- Opening 'Startup' tab from task manager - no tasks that would launch either a browser, or a webpage
- Opening 'shell:startup' folder from the Run. No items present
- Checked 'Services' in msconfig. No non-microsoft services to explain behaviour. I did browse the microsoft based services but it's possible I did not recognise a service
- Modified registry key for 'EnableActiveProbing' HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\NlaSvc\Parameters\Internet as suggested on other threads does not fix the issue.
- I've run a scan which did not detect any threats via Windows Security Center.
None of the above works.
Given this started immediately after an update I'm thinking that there is some setting somewhere which is doing this, rather than being a malware issue. Any help in working out why this is happening would be great.
Thanks in advance!
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I've seen several posts (none newer than a few months/years old) where people have had the MSN webpage pop up on startup. I am having this problem that started immediately after the 1909 update earlier this month.
Behaviour:
- On startup Windows will launch my default browser and open msn.com
- This occurs regardless of browser. Firefox is my default but if I change to Edge or Chrome as the default the page opens in these browsers.
Attempted remedies (none successful):
- Changing my home page (It never has, nor will ever be 'MSN' I changed it from 'Blank' to google.com and restart.
- Opening 'Startup' tab from task manager - no tasks that would launch either a browser, or a webpage
- Opening 'shell:startup' folder from the Run. No items present
- Checked 'Services' in msconfig. No non-microsoft services to explain behaviour. I did browse the microsoft based services but it's possible I did not recognise a service
- Modified registry key for 'EnableActiveProbing' HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\NlaSvc\Parameters\Internet as suggested on other threads does not fix the issue.
- I've run a scan which did not detect any threats via Windows Security Center.
None of the above works.
Given this started immediately after an update I'm thinking that there is some setting somewhere which is doing this, rather than being a malware issue. Any help in working out why this is happening would be great.
Thanks in advance!
Continue reading...