http:///% error

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I am an IT Technician in a school and we recently upgraded to XP from NT4

We did fresh installs and on some machines when the kids log on they cannot access the net. they get for example

http:///?%www.google.com

then DNS not found / page cannot be displayed error

why!!!!!!!!!

I log in as admin and I can surf and its all fine so why would it do this for the kids and not on all the machines. It only does it on 6 machines in the room the other 15 work ok

Any ideas would be most appreciate

email me asa

(e-mail address removed)

Thanks ever so muc

catherine UK
 
catherine said:
I am an IT Technician in a school and we recently upgraded to XP from NT4.

We did fresh installs and on some machines when the kids log on they cannot access the net. they get for example:

http:///?%www.google.com/

then DNS not found / page cannot be displayed error?


why!!!!!!!!!!

I log in as admin and I can surf and its all fine so why would it do this for the kids and not on all the machines. It only does it on 6 machines in the room the other 15 work ok.


Any ideas would be most appreciated

email me asap

(e-mail address removed)


Thanks ever so much


catherine UK
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http:///?%www.google.com is not a valid URL and does not exist, hence
DNS can't find it.

try http://www.google.com
 
yeah i know its not a real url, that is what explorer puts in not me, the home page is set to www.google.com. i cant figure out why its putting it in, its something to do with the kids not being able to locate the DNS i think


i dunno though
 
catherine said:
yeah i know its not a real url, that is what explorer puts in not me, the home page is set to www.google.com. i cant figure out why its putting it in, its something to do with the kids not being able to locate the DNS i think


i dunno though
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Check for spybot programs (Ad-aware), computer viruses, etc. What you
see is a symptom of one of these.

Also make sure you have installed all the Windows updates on these newly
install machines.
 
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