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Simple Lockdown of Homepage & Search Provider

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What is the simplest way to lock down the home page and default search provider so programs can't hijack them? There needs to be a built-in setting to do these things. How many user hours are spent resetting home pages and search settings? Thanks.

What is the simplest way to lock down the home page and default search provider so programs can't hijack them? There needs to be a built-in setting to do these things. How many user hours are spent resetting home pages and search settings? Thanks.

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I do not have the information you seek about how many user hours there are setting homepages.

However there are user lock options: