C:\searchpage.html?

[Guest]

My OS is Win XP Home. At startup of IE I get a dialog box saying ///C:/searchpage.html can not be found. After clicking OK, IE starts up and I need to manually click on the homepage icon in the toolbar for a page to loadup (www.msn.com). Oddly, if I select Tools Internet options, my home page is listed as: c:\searchpage.html#1507. Of course I then change that to http://www.msn.com. And if I close down IE and restart it, everything is normal. However upon a reboot, the problem is exactly as before (error msg, need to manually select a url to get around program hang, default homepage is searchpage.html).

Has anyone experienced this before?

 

[siljaline]

My OS is Win XP Home. At startup of IE I get a dialog box saying

///C:/searchpage.html can not be found. After clicking OK, IE starts up and I need
to manually click on the homepage icon in the toolbar for a page to loadup
(www.msn.com). Oddly, if I select Tools Internet options, my home page is listed
as: c:\searchpage.html#1507. Of course I then change that to http://www.msn.com. And
if I close down IE and restart it, everything is normal. However upon a reboot, the
problem is exactly as before (error msg, need to manually select a url to get
around program hang, default homepage is searchpage.html).

Has anyone experienced this before?

You are not the first victim...
Run "HijackThis" and post your log to the recommended Forum.
http://mvps.org/winhelp2002/unwanted.htm

HTH
~Silj

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[Guest]

I used Adaware which identified several problematic files which I isolated and deleted. Unfortunately this did not solve the problem. Ultimately I went into IE's Tools Internet options Advanced tab and deselected the Enable Instal On Demand (Other) box and this solved the problem. I will download and make a pass with "Hijack This" tonight just to be safe. Thanks for the informative reply.