Disable changing secondary home page settings
- Policy ID
- SecondaryHomePages
- Scope
- Computer Configuration, User Configuration
- Supported on
- At least Internet Explorer 8.0
- Source
- Administrative Templates (.admx) for Windows 11 2026 Update (26H2) (version 1.0)
- Category
- Windows Components › Internet Explorer
Description
Secondary home pages are the default Web pages that Internet Explorer loads in separate tabs from the home page whenever the browser is run. This policy setting allows you to set default secondary home pages.
If you enable this policy setting, you can specify which default home pages should load as secondary home pages. The user cannot set custom default secondary home pages.
If you disable or do not configure this policy setting, the user can add secondary home pages.
Note: If the “Disable Changing Home Page Settings” policy is enabled, the user cannot add secondary home pages.
Options
Registry
ComputerHKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
- (list values)REG_SZ
UserHKEY_CURRENT_USER
- (list values)REG_SZ