How to edit default aspx on SharePoint site without SharePoint Designer

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On several occations  I have faced the situation that the default aspx page on a Site doesn t work  More specifically  a reference to a WebPart and or Control is throwing a error because the assembly is not found   Fine  you just fire up the dreaded SharePoint Designer and remove the dependency line  However  if I wanted to use this method when not having SharePoint Designer  how could this be done   EDIT  Removing the web part using the   contents 1  web part management page didn t help in my case  The  lt   Register tag was still there and had to be removed using SharePoint Designer

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Or you could just open the page in maintenance mode and delete the offending web part   Sharepoint 2007 Insight  Remove bad or broken web parts from a page

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Go to view all content of the site  http   yourdmain sharepoint sitename  layouts viewlsts aspx   Select the document library  Pages   the  Pages  library are named based on the language you created the site in  I E  in norwegian the library is named  Sider    Download the default aspx to you computer and fix it  remove the web part and the  lt  Register tag   Save it and upload it back to the library  remember to check in the file    EDIT   ahh   you are not using a publishing site template  Go to site action -  site settings  Under  site administration  select the menu  content and structure  you should now see your default aspx page  But you cant do much with it    delete  copy or move    workaround   Enable publishing feature to the root web  Add the fixed default aspx file to the Pages library and change the welcome page to this  Disable the publishing feature  this will delete all other list create from this feature but not the Pages library since one page is in use    You will now have a new default aspx page for the root web but the url is changed from sitename default aspx to sitename Pages default aspx    workaround II Use a feature to change the default aspx file  The solution is explained here  http   wssguy com blogs dan archive 2008 10 29 how-to-change-the-default-page-of-a-sharepoint-site-using-a-feature aspx

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Easy quick solution which worked for me  1  Go to the root folder  Copy the default aspx file  2  Delete the original file  3  Rename the copied file to default aspx   Its all set to experiment again  Not sure how sharepoint referencing these webparts in that page  But works

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You can always use Sharepoint Solution Generator to create a project and edit in VS2008   You can find the Generator along with Sharepoint Developer tools

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I was able to accomplish editing the default aspx page by    Opening the site in SharePoint Designer 2013 Then clicking  All Files  to view all of the files   Then right-click -  Edit file in Advanced Mode      By doing that I was able to remove the tagprefix causing a problem on my page

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