My computer seems set to default to the wrong region

kah22

My nephew lives in the Republic and I live in the North. Recently he took my new computer with him and set it up for me in his own house in the Republic. I now notice that a lot of the sites that Google throw up at me end in .ie rather than .uk or .com. The Republic seems to have become the default

I'm assuming this has something to do with regional settings and while there is no big issue is there anyway I can reset the default to the UK

Ticked

Try clearing the history. If still no joy, uninstall the browser and reinstall.

In_For_A_Penny_2

What browser are you using?

Google will default to your location based on your IP address unless you tell it otherwise.

lonestar1

what windows version ? (assuming windows of course)

kah22

Operating Windows 10
Using both Chrome and IE 10 but might download Firefox as it was my browser of choice on my old laptop

D.A.

Won't make any difference what brower you're using to be honest. If your IP address is from the Republic, certain sites will direct you to the Republic.

The only solution would be to use a VPN/proxy server to make it appear like you're in the UK.

desm52

Checkout this Google page to see how to update your location for search:
https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/179386?p=ws_settings_location&hl=en&rd=1

CEON44

desm52 wrote: »

Checkout this Google page to see how to update your location for search:
https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/179386?p=ws_settings_location&hl=en&rd=1

Thought I'd try this and saw that even though I'm in NI North West it gave my location as Preston Uk. So I clicked the button to set to exact location and it still came up as Preston

Heisenbug

Location is now often set based on your wifi network, devices with GPS (phones, tablets etc) report the wifi network and location to Apple/Google/Microsoft etc... which is more accurate than the IP method. Assuming you are using wifi you could try changing the name of your network.