IE About:blank home page unchanegable, windows isn't loading correctly.

[TheOtherGuy66]

Hello I'm having a bit of trouble with Internet Explorer on Windows 8.1 PRO 64 bit. I just erased my hard drive with DOD and reinstalled windows clean. Updated and installed SUPERAntiSpyware Professional, SpywareBlaster, Malwarebytes Anti-Malware, Bitdefender Total Security 2015. And Even CCleaner PRO. But IE keeps making the home page ABOUT:BLANK and I cant change it. Is this normal for IE to have that as the home page and to be unchangeable. I had no external hard drives or flash drives plugged at the time of restoring the OS but I did notice the computer going a tad bit slower after the restore. Such as transfer rates and such on the hard drive windows explorer.exe not loading very fast. Icons taking 7 secs to load the picture. Computer boots fast but loading into windows it turns black and I had to press ctrl-alt-del to refresh the explorer.exe. But it seemed after I installed everything IE's home page became about:blank. I built the computer years ago, the cpu is about 45 C and the GPU is around 35 C and the PSU has the right volts the bios is updated. Nothing about the hardware seems wrong. I just don't understand the issue I'm facing. Could anybody help me out with this?

[TheOtherGuy66]

Anybody?

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