help.....

[Lana]

Hey.

I have a question. I am over at a friend's house right
now and this is on her computer (the problem). They have
Yahoo DSL and instead of using the browser given to them
by Yahoo, they use IE 6.0, well when ever they go to type
in an address in the brower bar (www.aol.com) it will
start searching and take them to a search-engine. (This
happens on any website.) But if they type in
HTTP://www.aol.com, it take them to the AOL main website.
It's kinda screwy, cause when I was using their computer a
few months ago, everything was fine, was able to type in
URLs with out the HTTP. Any suggestions on what is
wrong? And how do I go about fixing it?

Thanks
Lana

 

[norm]

spybot safer-networking.org
ad-aware lavasoftusa.com

 

[Michael_99]

Lana,

If running Spybot and Ad-aware does not fix it, you may be interested to
know I have a similar problem at my office, even though the ISP is WorldNet
instead of Yahoo.

In other words, when I type in certain URLs (for my company's Intranet) it
launches the WorldNet search site instead. My guess is it is because I am
using a version of IE 'branded' by WorldNet. I have been meaning to call
WorldNet, but I have bigger fish to fry.

So you might want to check with Yahoo.

Good luck and let us know what you find.

Michael

 

[Mike]

Courtest of Sandy Hardmeier MS-MVP
Have a look in the registry for these settings. Be careful when modifiying
the registry. Go to Start>run> typing "regedit" without the quotes and press
OK. Naviagate to the keys listed.
IE will not connect to a web page without manually typing http://
Using Regedit, have a look at this key:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\URL



The correct settings should be as follows:



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

Sub-key:

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\URL\Prefixes]


"ftp"="ftp://"
"gopher"="gopher://"
"home"="http://"
"mosaic"="http://"
"www"="http://"



A file called url.txt can be downloaded at
(http://inetexplorer.mvps.org/url.zip) (in zipped form). Rename the file
extension from txt to reg and you can then merge the file with your registry



Hope this helps