Error Message: "C:\Documents & Settings\Local Service\Desktop

[Guest]

When I type in a new web address and hit enter, I have started to get an
error message that tells me that "C:\Documents and Setting \ Local Service \
Desktop refers to a location that is unavailable. It could be on a hard drive
on this computer, or on a network ..... etc etc"

Does anyone have any idea what is causing this and how to fix it? Could it
be caused by me recent download and installation of Windows Destop Search?

Many thanks.

 

[Hans Le Roy]

Hi,

Does it help to start the webaddress with http:// ?

In that case, the http prefix could be broken - see
http://malektips.com/internet_explorer_6_0016.html

Kind regards

Hans

 

[Guest]

Hans,

Tks for your quick response. Putting http:// first does resolve the issue. I
following the link you provided, but when I double click on the prefix.reg
file I get the following error message:
"The specified files not a registry script. You can only import binary
registry files from within the registry editor".

I suspect I must have incorrectly followed the instructions. Any idea where
I am going wrong.

Thanks again.

 

[Frank Saunders, MS-MVP OE/WM]

Hans,

Tks for your quick response. Putting http:// first does resolve the issue.
I
following the link you provided, but when I double click on the prefix.reg
file I get the following error message:
"The specified files not a registry script. You can only import binary
registry files from within the registry editor".

Save the part between the lines below as httpfix.reg, right click it and
choose Merge (watch and correct line wrapping):

----------------httpfix.reg------------------------------------------
REGEDIT4

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\URL\DefaultPrefix]
@="http://"

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

 

[Guest]

Perfect! Thanks very much Frank, it worked a treat.

Hans,

Tks for your quick response. Putting http:// first does resolve the issue.
I
following the link you provided, but when I double click on the prefix.reg
file I get the following error message:
"The specified files not a registry script. You can only import binary
registry files from within the registry editor".

Save the part between the lines below as httpfix.reg, right click it and
choose Merge (watch and correct line wrapping):

----------------httpfix.reg------------------------------------------
REGEDIT4

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\URL\DefaultPrefix]
@="http://"

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