Browsing without http://

[Aaron]

This is annoying the hell out of me. All of a sudden one
day i can't go to any websites without typing in http://
first. If i try without it, i get a message about a
minute later saying that the page is unavailable. Why is
this??? Someone please help me!

 

[Frank Saunders, MS-MVP]

This is annoying the hell out of me. All of a sudden one
day i can't go to any websites without typing in http://
first. If i try without it, i get a message about a
minute later saying that the page is unavailable. Why is
this??? Someone please help me!

Check the below Registry entries vs. yours:

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\URL\DefaultPre
fix]
Default="http://"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\URL\Prefixes]
"ftp"="ftp://"
"gopher"="gopher://"
"home"="http://"
"mosaic"="http://"
"www"="http://"