Search prblems

[Bill]

Certain search engines, like Yahoo, will not allow me to
search. All of the other links on the page work, but
when entering a specific search item and hitting the
seach button, nothing happens. Yahoo and Alta Vista do
not work, but excite does. Any ideas?

 

[siljaline]

Certain search engines, like Yahoo, will not allow me to
search. All of the other links on the page work, but
when entering a specific search item and hitting the
seach button, nothing happens. Yahoo and Alta Vista do
not work, but excite does. Any ideas?

http://mvps.org/winhelp2002/unwanted.htm

HTH

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[James]

-----Original Message-----
Certain search engines, like Yahoo, will not allow me to
search. All of the other links on the page work, but
when entering a specific search item and hitting the
seach button, nothing happens. Yahoo and Alta Vista do
not work, but excite does. Any ideas?
.

To fix this issue you have to delete all the host files:

Here are the steps for same:

1) From the Start menu on your computer, click Search. (In
some versions of Windows®, you must click Find.)

2) Select All files and folders. (Some versions of Windows
list this option as Files or Folders.)

3) Type "hosts" (without quotation marks) in the file name
box and click Search. (Some versions of Windows list this
as Find Now.)

4) Once you locate the "hosts" file within your Windows or
WINNT directory, right click the file and click Delete.



Please when your issue is resolved.

EMAIL ADDRESS:- (e-mail address removed)

Thank you

James