Cannot Search From Address Bar

[Ronald \Alan\ Gumm, Jr.]

I hope someone can help.

I have Windows XP Professional with IE 6 SP2.

My ability to search from the address bar has suddenly gone away. For example, when I type in "car" instead of getting a list of websites involving cars from the MSN Search page I get an error screen for a web page that cannot be found and the address bar displays " http:///? car " I have verified that "Search from address bar" IS enabled in the advanced options tab. Although the Knowledge Base has 20 entries for Address Bar I cannot located a KB article for this specific issue.

All my other computers display the MSN Search page except this one. I have scanned this computer with updated Norton, AdAware, and SpyKiller and it comes up clean on all three.

I am guessing that it is a problem somewhere in a registry entry, but I have no idea where to look.

All help is appreciated, thank you.

 

[Ramesh [MVP]]

Alan,

This is usually caused by broken URLSearchHooks registry value. Apply this fix:
http://www.spywareinfo.com/downloads/tools/IEFIX.reg

Then follow-up with a HijackThis log (in a security forum), as a general checkup.

--
Ramesh, Microsoft MVP
Windows XP Shell/User
http://windowsxp.mvps.org


I hope someone can help.

I have Windows XP Professional with IE 6 SP2.

My ability to search from the address bar has suddenly gone away. For example, when I type in "car" instead of getting a list of websites involving cars from the MSN Search page I get an error screen for a web page that cannot be found and the address bar displays " http:///? car " I have verified that "Search from address bar" IS enabled in the advanced options tab. Although the Knowledge Base has 20 entries for Address Bar I cannot located a KB article for this specific issue.

All my other computers display the MSN Search page except this one. I have scanned this computer with updated Norton, AdAware, and SpyKiller and it comes up clean on all three.

I am guessing that it is a problem somewhere in a registry entry, but I have no idea where to look.

All help is appreciated, thank you.

 

[Ronald \Alan\ Gumm, Jr.]

Sir-

Your solution worked perfectly.

Thank you so much.



--
R. Alan Gumm, Jr.

(e-mail address removed)

Alan,

This is usually caused by broken URLSearchHooks registry value. Apply this fix:
http://www.spywareinfo.com/downloads/tools/IEFIX.reg

Then follow-up with a HijackThis log (in a security forum), as a general checkup.

--
Ramesh, Microsoft MVP
Windows XP Shell/User
http://windowsxp.mvps.org


I hope someone can help.

I have Windows XP Professional with IE 6 SP2.

My ability to search from the address bar has suddenly gone away. For example, when I type in "car" instead of getting a list of websites involving cars from the MSN Search page I get an error screen for a web page that cannot be found and the address bar displays " http:///? car " I have verified that "Search from address bar" IS enabled in the advanced options tab. Although the Knowledge Base has 20 entries for Address Bar I cannot located a KB article for this specific issue.

All my other computers display the MSN Search page except this one. I have scanned this computer with updated Norton, AdAware, and SpyKiller and it comes up clean on all three.

I am guessing that it is a problem somewhere in a registry entry, but I have no idea where to look.

All help is appreciated, thank you.

 

[Ramesh [MVP]]

You're most welcome Alan.

--
Ramesh, Microsoft MVP
Windows XP Shell/User
http://windowsxp.mvps.org


Sir-

Your solution worked perfectly.

Thank you so much.



--
R. Alan Gumm, Jr.

(e-mail address removed)

Alan,

This is usually caused by broken URLSearchHooks registry value. Apply this fix:
http://www.spywareinfo.com/downloads/tools/IEFIX.reg

Then follow-up with a HijackThis log (in a security forum), as a general checkup.

--
Ramesh, Microsoft MVP
Windows XP Shell/User
http://windowsxp.mvps.org

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