Google Chrome browser pulls up previous link

[sparkyw]

Greetings!

When I click on a desktop icon, the previous link is displayed. I can get where I want to go by using the address bar or by using IE [64bit] browser.

This anomaly happened after I downloaded some pictures from my daughter about my recent vacation. Coincidence? She just, within a few days, had her PC serviced and security changed from Norton to Microsoft's free program.

I've cleared browsing data by deleting the address bar history and run Avast, c cleaner, spy bot, malwarebytes. All negative except Spy bot which came up with DoubleClick and MediaPlex, which I fixed.

Thanks for any help!

Sparky

[Geek-9pm]

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What you describe is a feature, not a bug. Really! 
There is an option to return to the last site visited. In should be in the same place where you define your home page.

[sparkyw]

Thanks.

What I can no longer do is click on a desk top icon and pull up the applicable page or link, e.g., Gmail, AOL or Google Chrome. I get the last open page.

I just looked in Google Options\Basic\On Startup [for the first time since acquiring the PC]. "Open the home page" is checked and "Reopen the pages that were open last" is not.

Will appreciate you all's further thoughts.

Sparky

[Geek-9pm]

It is in the area called basics.



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[patio]

Why not open Crome to your desired Homepage and create a new Desktop shortcut ?