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Has anyone managed to resolve this problem without re-installing XP?

I have tried the cvarious suggestions in the 30 odd postings on this
category and none appear to fix the problem. The registy settings of the XP
installation are correct and did not need to be reset for www and http
handling.

Any further suggestions would be appreciated - just a thought is this an IE
bug as it appears to be out there and affecting quite a few PC's?
 
Hi schultzy :-)

Try the following and see if it helps:

Cannot type an address without adding http://
First… Internet Options> Advanced> Browsing> put a check by "Use inline
AutoComplete."

If no joy, then try the following:

Courtesy of Tony Klein, MS MVP:

This will restore the Windows defaults for a whole lot of Search related
registry entries.

CAUTION: BACKUP YOUR REGISTRY FIRST!

Close IE, copy the bold to Notepad, save as Search.reg (save as 'all files',
and doubleclick. Answer 'yes' when prompted to add the contents of
Search.reg to the Registry:

REGEDIT4 (Watch for the line wrap. Each one should be all on on line.)

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Search]
"SearchAssistant"="http://ie.search.msn.com/{SUB_RFC1766}/srchasst/srchasst.
Htm"
"CustomizeSearch"="http://ie.search.msn.com/{SUB_RFC1766}/srchasst/srchcust.
Htm"
"Default_Search_URL"="http://www.microsoft.com/isapi/redir.dll?prd=ie&ar=ies
earch"

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\SearchUrl]
""="http://home.microsoft.com/access/autosearch.asp?p=%s"

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\main]
"Search Page"="http://www.microsoft.com/isapi/redir.dll?prd=ie&ar=iesearch"
"Search Bar"="http://search.msn.com/spbasic.htm"

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\URLSearchHooks]
"{CFBFAE00-17A6-11D0-99CB-00C04FD64497}"=""

[-HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\URL]

[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://

or……..

Restore Search:
http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/regs_edits/RestoreSearch2.REG
This will restore your default Search functionality. You will, however,
have to restore any custom setups you may have had before.

also…

Download the fix - Reset Search:
http://www.spywareinfo.com/downloads/tools/IEFIX.reg
This will restore your default Search functionality. However, if you had
any custom adjustments you have made will have to re-select them.

or.........

Dealing with Unwanted Spyware and Parasites:
http://mvps.org/winhelp2002/unwanted.htm

also…- Courtesy of PA Bear
Help with Hijackware
http://aumha.org/a/parasite.htm
http://aumha.org/a/quickfix.htm
http://aumha.net/viewtopic.php?t=5878
http://mvps.org/winhelp2002/unwanted.htm
http://inetexplorer.mvps.org/data/prevention.htm
http://inetexplorer.mvps.org/data/tshoot.htm
http://www.mvps.org/sramesh2k/Malware_Defence.htm
http://defendingyourmachine.blogspot.com

Hope this helps.

Jan :)
MS MVP - IE/OE
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that's why they're so contagious.

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Sorry BUT I have tried all of those solutions without success. This is why I
wonder if it is an IE 6 bug that only manifests itself in certain
circumstances???

Thanks for your input but it looks like a re-installation.
 
 
Your post was not very helpful as I have read all your previous postings on
this matter - I had already determined that the PC was completely spyware,
malware and virus free.

So my question remains - has anyone resolved this problem without resorting
to a complete re-install?
 
No you did not. Try what Jan posted. It should get you back on track. No easy fix if that is what you are looking for.
 
Please include previous message(s) in your replies to the newsgroup.

Please post the URL for your forum thread to which you've posted your
HijackThis log and where an expert has given it a clean bill of health.
 
Sandi -

Thanks for your suggestion but it also had not effect in correcting the
problm.

Martin
 
Peter -

I have done everythig suggested by everyone (including Jan) and have still
got the same problem.

Do you have any further advice to offer?

Martin
 
Then yes.....if you have indeed done all the steps outlined in this thread
and the problem persists, then you should completely reinstall the OS. Be
sure to back up all your data first.

How to reinstall or repair Internet Explorer and Outlook Express in Windows
XP
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;318378

Hope this helps.

Jan :)
MS MVP - IE/OE
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schultzy said:
Has anyone managed to resolve this problem without re-installing XP?

I have tried the cvarious suggestions in the 30 odd postings on this
category and none appear to fix the problem. The registy settings of the XP
installation are correct and did not need to be reset for www and http
handling.

Any further suggestions would be appreciated - just a thought is this an IE
bug as it appears to be out there and affecting quite a few PC's?
Click to expand...


You should either list "the 30 odd" suggestions that you have already tried
or be prepared to see them all suggested again. BTW I strongly suspect
that some of those suggestions would have been intended to elicit feedback
in order to refine a user's symptom description, so you aren't doing that
for one thing. ;)

In any case this feature is what an IE Repair could help reconstruct,
though few XP users will be able to do a full IE Repair. (E.g. only those
who installed IE6sp1 before installing XPsp1 will have setupwbv.dll.)
XPsp2 tried to provide an IE Repair alternative (with iexplore.exe /rereg)
but apparently botched the implementation somehow (my explanation for
why the feature is no longer documented). Hence we are reduced to offering
very limited subsets of it, such as the set of regsvr32 commands listed
in KB831429.

For this particular symptom my guess would be that

regsvr32 /i shell32.dll

would be the one which would have the most significant effect.
For example, RegMon shows that that re-registration resets the
values of the CLSID which is last used before the Prefixes values
are enumerated. (Bizarrely it is something called HideMyComputerIcons.)
Unfortunately, the Prefixes values do not appear to be initialized by any
of the common re-registrations but since you claim that they are all
in good repair that probably doesn't matter.


BTW instead of reinstalling you could install (or uninstall and reinstall)
the latest cumulative update of IE. Be aware however, that if you
install or reinstall with malware's hooks present you could make
things unnecessarily worse. That is why the suggestion was made
to make sure that your system had a "clean bill of health" from a HTJ
inspection. As well as being a potential fix it could be extra insurance
that your reinstall attempt would have a better chance of succeeding.


Good luck

Robert Aldwinckle
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Robert said:
You should either list "the 30 odd" suggestions that you have already
tried or be prepared to see them all suggested again. BTW I strongly
suspect that some of those suggestions would have been intended to elicit
feedback
in order to refine a user's symptom description, so you aren't doing that
for one thing. ;)
Click to expand...

<ROFL>
 
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