kcthatsme...
lol! Man, dude or whatever... If you take everything we tell you that personal, you'll never be able to get help on these boards. I said that for your own good. What you asked is some REALLY basic things. How to change the homepage can be found in the Help of Internet Explorer (the F1 key...) VERY easily.
I pressed F1, went to the Index tab, and typed in 2 words: "home page" then pressed enter. Well.. look what we got here! A Home Page section with a sub category called "Changing" for Changing Home Page of course.. I click on it, then click on Display, and BOOM! What do I have there? The instructions, written for dummies, on how to change the homepage in Internet Explorer!
That's the kind of "stuff you should do on your own first" I was talking about.
Ask ANYONE that is just a bit technical with computers, and they will ALL tell you that the best way to learn, is actually to TRY IT YOURSELF FIRST! If you keep asking for answers the minute you have a question, you might get some help on the spot, but 2 weeks later, you won't remember a thing and you will repeat the same question again.
I learned Windows by making it crash!! The more it would crash, the more I had to look for answers, and try stuff out. You don't even want to know how many times I've reformatted my PC!! I finally got most of it, and now I can help others with more advanced problems. It's just like maths: You can read formulas, and read as much theory as you want, but until you actually put it in practice with a contex, it's a LOT harder to grasp and understand, and espescially remember.
So if you took it that way, I'm sorry. But I'd rather be honest with you once, than seeing you ask the same basic question 5 times wondering why nobody's answering.
I just hope I didn't scare you. PC's are a HUGE world, you can't learn everything in a few weeks, it takes YEARS! and I'm far from done myself. What I said about the books for dummies was not a joke, I'm really serious!! They are really good books (the yellow cover, you know?), and you have stuff for beginners as well as more advanced users. You have to start somewhere, and that's the beginning. You were just skipping steps by comming here.
So if you have another question one time, and you DID take the time to look in the help, but didn't find anything, looked a little bit (at least) on the web, and didn't find what you were looking for, AND you did use the Search function on top of this page to see if your question has already been answered... THEN we will take pleasure to answer you the best we can, even if it's a basic question. But if you come here asking stuff when it's obvious that you didn't try a thing first, then we might be more prone to ignore you.
Anyway, I just hope you get the point without being too offended.
Peace.
And for your information, the message thing.. There's a way to disable it. You need Powertoys for XP (linked on the front page) Use Tweak UI. And those messages are Hotmail messages, since it's linked to MSN Messenger, are you trying to get those messages? Or you're opening Outlook Express? And for the WPW question, I DID find a lot of stuff about it in Help and Support, maybe you should look a bit more carefully. If you want more advanced stuff on it, go to
http://www.microsoft.com/technet and try to search for Web Publishing Wizard. That's all I'm telling you, that should be MORE than enough =P
