ADDRESS BAR DEFAULTS

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Fred

At work, I can type www.microsoft.com and the system
automatically defaults to http://www.microsoft.com and
loads the web site. At home when I type the same
thing, it defaults to "file://C:" instead of http://

How do I change the default at home back to http:// so
I can go to a specific page without typing http:// each
time?

Thanks,
 
Use regedit and go to
"HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\URL". Just put
same values your work computer has. "DefaultPprefix" should be "http://".
Also check "Prefixes" values.
 
Fred said:
At work, I can type www.microsoft.com and the system
automatically defaults to http://www.microsoft.com and
loads the web site. At home when I type the same
thing, it defaults to "file://C:" instead of http://

How do I change the default at home back to http:// so
I can go to a specific page without typing http:// each
time?

Thanks,
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Check the below Registry entries vs. yours:

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\URL\DefaultPre
fix]
Default="http://"

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