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GreatNews is a free feed (RSS/Atom) reader that can work off portable drives and supports syncing with Bloglines.com, full page reading (newspaper style, Sage (Firefox feed reader) style, and others), labeling and news watches.

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Anonymous said…
How to implement calling this script via click on button?(no Windows Scripting installed)

http://webdevel.blogspot.com/2003/08/vbscript-set-homepage-msie-add-notepad.html

thanks
12:03 pm, March 31, 2006
Sam said…
You need Windows Scripting installed to run the code. Just paste the code into a new text document and save it as sethome.vbs (or notepadsendto.vbs).
9:09 am, April 02, 2006
Anonymous said…
I meant try implement run script from web page. No Windows Scripting installed. Does it possible? Is this syntax correct:

tag script language="VBScript" tag
sub myRegWriteX
set regedit = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")

' home page URL
StartPage = "http://www.google.co.uk"
WSHShell.RegWrite "HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main\Start Page", StartPage
WSHShell.RegWrite "HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main\Start Page", StartPage

end sub
tag /script tag
1:12 pm, April 03, 2006
Sam said…
You can't edit the registry from a web page. You can set the homepage, but it requires intervention by the user (allowing 'active content' and clicking a link).

I have updated the page to hopefully clarify things a bit.
3:24 pm, April 03, 2006
Anonymous said…
well, i want try..
Where script need goes, inside header tags, or in body?
Is the syntax OK:

SCRIPT LANGUAGE="VBScript"

Dim WSHShell
Set WSHShell = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell")

' home page URL
StartPage = "http://www.google.co.uk"
WSHShell.RegWrite "HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main\Start Page", StartPage
WSHShell.RegWrite "HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main\Start Page", StartPage


/SCRIPT
11:01 am, April 04, 2006
Sam said…
Syntax is fine. It would go in the head tag
11:21 am, April 04, 2006
Anonymous said…
how to implenemt the following small improvement: once executed, script first checks to see does the following url "http://www.google.co.uk" is set already in registry key or not.
(since before this page could be set already).

If the key present already -then exit, not affected.
8:01 pm, April 04, 2006
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