Opening IE8

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Using XP: lately, when I open IE8 from the desktop icon, instead of opening
my homepage (my.msn.com) I get a window which says Internet Explorer cannot
display the webpage.
If I click on the Refresh button, the homepage may open or it may take 20-30
seconds before opening. Changing the home page does not help.
This is something new - usually the home page opens right away. Any help
would be appreciated. Thanks.
 
artnlsn said:
Using XP: lately, when I open IE8 from the desktop icon, instead of
opening my homepage (my.msn.com) I get a window which says Internet
Explorer cannot display the webpage.
If I click on the Refresh button, the homepage may open or it may
take 20-30 seconds before opening. Changing the home page does not
help. This is something new - usually the home page opens right away.
Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.
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Download, install, run, update and perform a full scan (separately) with the
following two applications (freeware versions are the ones to use for this):

SuperAntiSpyware
http://www.superantispyware.com/

MalwareBytes
http://www.malwarebytes.com/

After performing a full scan with one and then the other and removing
whatever they both find completely, you may uninstall these products,
if you wish.

Download and run the MSRT manually:
http://www.microsoft.com/security/malwareremove/default.mspx

Reboot.

Download/install and utilize CCleaner (www.ccleaner.com) after that and
reboot.
 
May be you never experienced the problem ( i have xp pro sp3) but I
installed ie8 yesterday and I found today that I had the problem that is
mentionned in this thread, everytime I wanted a new tab I had the problem.
I solved it by removing the www in the address.

And because of your comment, I tested again changing my default home page to
http://www.google.com and it works now. However, I had to change the
address to make it work, not changing the address would have give me nothing
and doing the scan would not have give me the page connection.
 
artnlsn said:
Using XP: lately, when I open IE8 from the desktop icon, instead of
opening my homepage (my.msn.com) I get a window which says Internet
Explorer cannot display the webpage.
If I click on the Refresh button, the homepage may open or it may take
20-30 seconds before opening. Changing the home page does not help.
This is something new - usually the home page opens right away. Any help
would be appreciated. Thanks.
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I had exactly the same problem. I never did figure it out. The only
difference was that whatever page I tried to open failed when IE8 first
opened. Refreshing the page opened the page as you report.

It was eventually cured when I was forced to do a clean install of XP.
 
Sorry for the delay in responding to the group: Checking the internet
addresses I discovered all my addresses are without the www including my
home address so this is not a factor.
I then cleaned my computer using my spyware, malware etc programs (including
ccleaner) and that eliminated the problem.
Many thanks to Shenan for the help.
 
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