+BeLGaRaTh Subscriber¹ Posted June 23, 2003 Subscriber¹ Share Posted June 23, 2003 Hi, Sorry if this is the wrong forum, wasnt too sure :( Anyway my problem is that up until recently I could just type in a url, eg liverpool.com and it would take me directly to the site, however now, whenever I enter liverpool.com or anyother shortform URL for that matter (neowin.net etc etc) IE pasues for a second and then the following appears in the address bar of IE .. Its weird, what can be causing it and how can I stop it? As I say all was fine till a few days ago, I have virus checked and found nothing, have ran AdAware which also found nothing, other than a few dataminer cookies (which I deleted). Its just weird in the fact that it seems to be adding an extra forward slash to the http part, and also adding a space ?%20 to the beginning of the url. Thanks in advance for any help :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CyberKewl Posted June 23, 2003 Share Posted June 23, 2003 If you can't fix it, try to go around it instead. See if using MyIE helps - http://myie2.yeah.net It's a browser shell that uses the IE engine to render webpages + there's lots of other features (check the website to find out more). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeCoz Posted June 23, 2003 Share Posted June 23, 2003 try reinstalling ie or even system restore Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+BeLGaRaTh Subscriber¹ Posted June 23, 2003 Author Subscriber¹ Share Posted June 23, 2003 Have restore off, didnt think you could resintall IE on XP? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zip Posted June 23, 2003 Share Posted June 23, 2003 check to see if you have service pack 1 for ie6 in help>about. if you dont have that try downloading it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xahid Posted June 23, 2003 Share Posted June 23, 2003 or try Control panel-> internet options -> advance hit the "Restore defaults". then check if it works ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xahid Posted June 23, 2003 Share Posted June 23, 2003 do not forget to delete the download program files, Clean the Cache & cockies etc... everything !!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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