IE5 - Address Bar

[Edward]

I posted this in the IE forum but without success.

My daughter telephoned me yesterday to tell me she was unable to bring up
her new website. When I tried to help, she was unable to find an address bar
on her browser. In "View//Toolbars", "Address Bar" is ticked but nothing I
could do helped. Having nowhere to type the address, of course makes it
impossible to navigate.

Up to now, when she launches IE the window comes up as Yahoo which has
always found what she is looking for, using Yahoo's search - i.e.Keywords.
Obviously an unlisted website is not found. This I believe was set by Dell,
the PC's manufacturer.

Setting the browser to "about:blank" does not help.

I know about IE6 - deleting the registry key ..../toolbar/WebBrowser to get
back to defaults - but I don't know about IE5.

Can anyone help, please?

TIA

Ed O'Brien

 

[Will Denny]

Hi

Which OS? The following anti-spyware programs work OK with XP:

Ad-Aware - www.lavasoftusa.com
Spybot - http://www.safer-networking.org/
CWShredder - http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/downloads.html

Try SpyWareBlaster to stop intrusions:

http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/spywareblaster.html

Also see the following links:

http://mvps.org/winhelp2002/unwanted.htm
http://www.microsoft.com/security/articles/spyware.asp

 

[Edward]

Thanks, Will.

I'm quite sure it is not a spyware problem. Her PC - which I think runs
98SE - originally opened with the Dell page as her Home page. I don't know
what she did after that, except I know she did not like the Dell setup. Now
the default page is Yahoo or MSN but neither give an address bar - which is
the real pain - where she can type in her own URLs.

I checked MS Support and they give the answer for IE6 but I can't find any
help on IE5. I live quite a long way from my daughter so can't just pop
round, and I don't want to try talking her through registry editing without
knowing what I'm doing as that could be disastrous. But a simple 'delete' as
with IE6 would be easy enough to attempt.

Do you know if it can be done this way?

Ed





Hi

Which OS? The following anti-spyware programs work OK with XP:

Ad-Aware - www.lavasoftusa.com
Spybot - http://www.safer-networking.org/
CWShredder - http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/downloads.html

Try SpyWareBlaster to stop intrusions:

http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/spywareblaster.html

Also see the following links:

http://mvps.org/winhelp2002/unwanted.htm
http://www.microsoft.com/security/articles/spyware.asp

 

[Will Denny]

Hi Ed

It's some time since I've used a Win 9x OS - you may be better trying off trying a Win 98 IE News Group - if you haven't already been there:

news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.win98.internet.browser

Click on the above link. All the best.

 

[Edward]

Thank, Will. I haven't tried that one.

Ed



Hi Ed

It's some time since I've used a Win 9x OS - you may be better trying off
trying a Win 98 IE News Group - if you haven't already been there:

news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.win98.internet.browser

Click on the above link. All the best.

 

[Will Denny]

You're welcome, Ed.

 

[NoMoreMrNiceGuy]

I posted this in the IE forum but without success.

My daughter telephoned me yesterday to tell me she was unable to bring up
her new website. When I tried to help, she was unable to find an address bar
on her browser. In "View//Toolbars", "Address Bar" is ticked but nothing I
could do helped. Having nowhere to type the address, of course makes it
impossible to navigate.

Up to now, when she launches IE the window comes up as Yahoo which has
always found what she is looking for, using Yahoo's search - i.e.Keywords.
Obviously an unlisted website is not found. This I believe was set by Dell,
the PC's manufacturer.

Setting the browser to "about:blank" does not help.

I know about IE6 - deleting the registry key ..../toolbar/WebBrowser to get
back to defaults - but I don't know about IE5.

Can anyone help, please?

TIA

Ed O'Brien

Did you try just right clicking on the menu bar at the top and selecting
Address Bay?

 

[Phillips]

A quick fix is to type the url in IE Options/General/HomePage URL and use
the Home button, then Add it to Favorites. Well, it's not a solution, just
an emergency procedure.
Michael