Odd IE7 Behavior

[HarrisonS]

I just noticed this morning that when I press F5, the IE goes directly to my "home page" rather than refreshing the current page being viewed. I ran Malwarebytes immediately but it didn't fand anything. Also McAfee Virus Scan ran yesterday, as usual. It is possible that I may have accidentally changed an IE setting, and just need to set it back to the original setting, but I cannot find out if that is even possible. Is this behavior even a normal option for IE7?

[DigeratiPrime]

I am not aware of any way to control the F5 setting in IE7,

Check what version of IE7 you have installed via Help>About.

You could try reinstalling IE to see if that fixes it, I would reccomend upgrading to IE8 anyway.

Windows Internet Explorer 7 for Windows XP

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details...;displaylang=en

Windows Internet Explorer 8 for Windows XP

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details...;displaylang=en

[cluberti]

Agreed - either some add-on or extension with a global hook is loaded in the IE7 process and catching the F5 keypress or IE "thinks" you were on your home page, and pressing F5 caused it to refresh the home page. Either is just as likely, and for what it's worth I've personally never seen that behavior before. Do you experience the same behavior if you run IE7 from the command line with the -extoff switch (iexplore.exe -extoff to start it in safe mode)?