New fix which disables username/password and @

[John Semple]

Example

http://a:[email protected]

This is really annoying as each time I click on they type
of links I get a invalid syntax error and the way to fix
it is not simple to understand. Is there a very easy way
to re-enable like a simple registery tweak or something?

 

[Alan Edwards]

Have you tried the workaround mentioned in the fix?
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=kb;en-us;834489

....Alan

 

[PA Bear]

This just in! (OK, it was released yesterday...)

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=831167
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