IE hangs if URL is missing http://

[Guest]

Hi,
Whenever I type a URL like www.microsoft.com into Internet Explorer and
press Enter IE freezes. If I enter http://www.microsoft.com everything is
fine.

I am running IE 6 with SP2 installed, IE version
6.0.2900.2180.xpsp_sp2_rtm.040803-2158

Anyone else have this problem? Solutions?

Thanks

 

[Jan Il]

Hi Brenton

Hi,
Whenever I type a URL like www.microsoft.com into Internet Explorer
and press Enter IE freezes. If I enter http://www.microsoft.com
everything is fine.

I am running IE 6 with SP2 installed, IE version
6.0.2900.2180.xpsp_sp2_rtm.040803-2158

Anyone else have this problem? Solutions?

Try the following and see if it helps:

Adding HTTP:// to web addresses

You can check these keys and edit them, if necessary, as follows:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\URL\
DefaultPrefix default="http://"

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

or.............

Repairs the corrupted or altered (spyware) HTTP prefixes
http://mvps.org/winhelp2002/RepairDefaultPrefix.reg

or........

IE will not connect to a web page without manually typing http://
http://inetexplorer.mvps.org/answers_8.htm


If these steps do not resolve your problem, please post back to this thread
with the details and any error messages.

Hope this helps

Jan
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[Guest]

Jan, you're a genius!
Editing the (default) value in
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\URL\Prefixes
from nothing ("") to "http://" fixed my issue.

Thank you,

Brenton

 

[Jan Il]

Hi Brenton

Jan, you're a genius!
Editing the (default) value in
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\URL\Prefixes
from nothing ("") to "http://" fixed my issue.

Thank you,

Brenton

You're very welcome! Glad to hear you were able to get the problem
resolved. Good job!

Thank you for posting back and letting us know what worked for you, and for
the benefit of other readers who might have a similar problem.

Jan
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