Internet Explorer "This Page Cannot Be Displayed"

[Redlimit]

Internet Explorer is giving me some trouble. Whenever I
type in a web page address in the address bar and press
enter, it always comes up with the "This page cannot be
displayed" page (located at C:\WINDOWS\system32
\notfound.html).

However, if I use links or bookmarks(favourites) pages
load up normally. I have Google cached as my homepage so
thankfully I can run searches on web addresses and go to
websites by clicking on the links provided by the search.

I'm not entirely sure what is wrong, but I think files
may be missing from my System32 folder. I have tried to
re-install IE6, but I get the error "this has not passed
Microsoft Certification" every time (even after following
all of the steps on the help page to get rid of this
message - again it says that some sort of file is
missing, and my guess would be from System32).

A full re-install of XP is not an option at this time.
This error is a major annoyance because of the extra
steps needed to view just about any webpage normally.
Anyone know anything about this?

 

[S.Sengupta]

-----Original Message-----
Internet Explorer is giving me some trouble. Whenever I
type in a web page address in the address bar and press
enter, it always comes up with the "This page cannot be
displayed" page (located at C:\WINDOWS\system32
\notfound.html).

However, if I use links or bookmarks(favourites) pages
load up normally. I have Google cached as my homepage so
thankfully I can run searches on web addresses and go to
websites by clicking on the links provided by the search.

I'm not entirely sure what is wrong, but I think files
may be missing from my System32 folder. I have tried to
re-install IE6, but I get the error "this has not passed
Microsoft Certification" every time (even after following
all of the steps on the help page to get rid of this
message - again it says that some sort of file is
missing, and my guess would be from System32).

A full re-install of XP is not an option at this time.
This error is a major annoyance because of the extra
steps needed to view just about any webpage normally.
Anyone know anything about this?
.

Hi!
Run Spybot and retry.
with regards,
ssg
pronetworks.org

 

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[tanya]

I had a client with this problem.

Some site you visited placed 2 files on your computer, notfound.html
(which is a bogus search page) and the other is privacypolicy.html
(not sure on that name as I deleted it before I started documenting
this problem).

The site then changed your registry settings so that when ever you do
not place "http://" in front of an address it sends you to the
notfound.html file on your pc.

Here is the fix:

Using the registry editor, go to the
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\URL\ key.

Under it are 2 keys.

DefaultPrefix

Name: (Default)
Value: notfound.html

Change the value to: http://

The next key is Prefixes

Name: www.
Value: notfound.html

Change the value to: http://

Exit the registry editor.

Now using windows explorer go to the windows/system32 directory.

Delete the notfound.html file. There may be another file there with a
name like privacypolicy.html, it can be deleted also.

 

[tanya]

I had a client with this problem.

Some site you visited placed 2 files on your computer, notfound.html
(which is a bogus search page) and the other is privacypolicy.html
(not sure on that name as I deleted it before I started documenting
this problem).

The site then changed your registry settings so that when ever you do
not place "http://" in front of an address it sends you to the
notfound.html file on your pc.

Here is the fix:

Using the registry editor, go to the
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\URL\ key.

Under it are 2 keys.

DefaultPrefix

Name: (Default)
Value: notfound.html

Change the value to: http://

The next key is Prefixes

Name: www.
Value: notfound.html

Change the value to: http://

Exit the registry editor.

Now using windows explorer go to the windows/system32 directory.

Delete the notfound.html file. There may be another file there with a
name like privacypolicy.html, it can be deleted also.