For some changes, you need to set the new condition and immediately close and reopen the program in order to make the change "permanent."

In my IE, I think I recall getting a message telling me that needs to be done for some browser changes, but I don't recall needing it to change my homepage. But then I've never allowed Bing on my machine, and I think I was running Win95 the last time I changed homepages.

It's possible it may be required that you restart Firefox in order to make a change in home page "stick" in Firefox.(?)

Almost every Microsoft update will show "Bing" as a recommended (but optional) update, and sometimes there's an option to "install all," so that's probably how you got it. I usually look separately at the critical updates, and almost always install all of them, then go separately to the optionals and allow only what I want of them.

It may be necessary to uninstall Bing (if you can?). Since I've been waiting for them to tell me a reason for having it and have never seen anything but adspeak flatulence, I never installed it so I don't know whether it can be separately uninstalled.

John