Address Toolbar

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Hi,

I've noticed that if I enter www.google.co.uk or similar into the address
bar and press go or hit enter. Internet Explorer 6 sp1 hangs and creates an
error in the application log file stating this. However if I enter
http://www.google.co.uk everything is fine.
I've enusred that everthing is upto date, re-installed the latest patches,
ran spybot which only found cookies which have now been deleted, it is also
running MS AntiSpyWare.

I've also entered regsvr32 urlmon.dll
reset all registry settings back to default.

Has anyone got any over ideas?
 
Hi Alan,

Are you using the ICQ toolbar? This may alter the Address bar url behavior.
Post back here and I can give you a fix for it.

Alternatively if this is not the case check your values for the following
registry key

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\URL

Here are my settings.

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\URL]

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

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

Usually these settings are altered by some spyware toolbars, so check for
malware too!
 
Hi,

Cheers for that, I don't use the ICQ toolbar the only one I use is google,
but I did have the EarthLink toolbar on for a short time.

All the other settings are the same.

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Regards
Alan Sawyer


Rob Parsons said:
Hi Alan,

Are you using the ICQ toolbar? This may alter the Address bar url behavior.
Post back here and I can give you a fix for it.

Alternatively if this is not the case check your values for the following
registry key

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\URL

Here are my settings.

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\URL]

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

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

Usually these settings are altered by some spyware toolbars, so check for
malware too!
Click to expand...
 
Alan said:
Hi,

I've noticed that if I enter www.google.co.uk or similar into the
address bar and press go or hit enter. Internet Explorer 6 sp1 hangs
and creates an error in the application log file stating this.
However if I enter http://www.google.co.uk everything is fine.
I've enusred that everthing is upto date, re-installed the latest
patches, ran spybot which only found cookies which have now been
deleted, it is also running MS AntiSpyWare.

I've also entered regsvr32 urlmon.dll
reset all registry settings back to default.

Has anyone got any over ideas?
Click to expand...

Using Regedit, browse to the following registry key and make sure the noted
setting is correct:

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\AutoComplete]
"Append Completion"="yes"

also see the following values:

"Use AutoComplete"="yes"
"AutoSuggest"="no"

Click Start | Run and type
control inetcpl.cpl
Select Content tab, and click AutoComplete button
In the Use AutoComplete for section, put a checkmark near Web addresses
Click OK, OK to close the dialog.

Equivalent registry value for this setting

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\AutoComplete

Value named: AutoSuggest of type REG_SZ
Possible value-data: yes | no

You may have to Restart the computer.

See also: http://mvps.org/winhelp2002/RepairDefaultPrefix.reg

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