autocompleting www addresses

[Chris]

Hi and happy new year. I had a problem with the hugesearch
virus hijacking my browser which I've finally got rid of
by editing the registry. Trouble is, now when I type an
address in the address bar as "www.blahblah.com" it won't
find the address ie it won't automatically put in the
http:// at the front.

I know what the problem is, when I was editing the
registry, i replaced all the hugesearch.net urls with
http://www.google.com so google would be my search engine
and search assistant but obviously one of these was
supposed to be something else. I can't find which on it is
and what it should be instead of http://www.google.com -
anyone know the solution? Cheers.

 

[Frank Saunders, MS-MVP IE/OE]

Hi and happy new year. I had a problem with the hugesearch
virus hijacking my browser which I've finally got rid of
by editing the registry. Trouble is, now when I type an
address in the address bar as "www.blahblah.com" it won't
find the address ie it won't automatically put in the
http:// at the front.

I know what the problem is, when I was editing the
registry, i replaced all the hugesearch.net urls with
http://www.google.com so google would be my search engine
and search assistant but obviously one of these was
supposed to be something else. I can't find which on it is
and what it should be instead of http://www.google.com -
anyone know the solution? Cheers.

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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