Missing tab in Internet Options!!! HELP!

[blurredvision]

I am using Win98SE with IE6.0. Just a couple weeks ago, I went into the Internet Options in the Control Panel, and set my history to 0 days. Today, I decided to change this to 5 days, and went into the options again. Lo and behold, my General tab is gone! It starts with the Security tab, as if General never existed. All other tabs are showing but General, where I can change my home page, delete temp internet files, and change a few settings.

During the past couple weeks, I have not installed any new programs at all, not changed any major settings, have not fooled with regedit, haven't downloaded anything with viruses or such, haven't done really anything at all. It is a comp I use at work, and do nothing BUT work on it. I don't even surf the net that often.

I'm not sure when this happened in the past couple weeks, and was thinking of doing a scanreg. Does anybody know of this problem and how to fix it? Or what to try?

 

[fredtam]

Is it missing when your in IE6 when you hit tools>internet options.

 

[blurredvision]

Yes fredtam.

I did a scanreg /restore from a backup of yesterday, and this solved the problem and brought back the tab. Anybody know why this would happen, though?

 

[BennyD]

some webbsites manage to lock your homepage so they might also be able to remove the general tab to stop you from changing it.

 

[oog]

See this thread

 

[fredtam]

And this one. Itell you its an epedimic.