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Computer Blog - thebroadroom.net: http prefix not working in Microsoft Internet Explorer
Disclaimer: all of the following is purely from personal experience. TheBroadroom.Net urges you to use your own instincts,
common sense, and willingness to take risks when applying any of the information below.
http prefix not working in Microsoft Internet Explorer
posted by Colleen Shirazi,
Friday, November 11, 2005
at 12:37 PM (Pacific)
Someone asked this on a tech board I like to frequent. She'd just had a virus on her computer; she'd fixed the virus, but now, she had to type "http://" each time she wanted to visit a website in Internet Explorer (rather than having it appear automatically after typing in the domain name).
I did some googling around and discovered that, unlike what I'd thought, this didn't appear to be an IE Internet Options setting. It looked to be a registry setting, that had most likely been changed by the virus.
Here is the answer that I posted on the board:
Some suggestions...ro josephine9999 11/11/2005 3:21:00 PM
I looked on google for some information. What kept coming up, indicated that perhaps the virus you had, changed some of your registry settings.
My advice would be first to get the exact name of the virus you had and then research that. See if that particular virus is known to change registry settings and which exact settings might have been changed.
The "http" part is called a "url prefix." From what I found, it would appear that the registry setting is called HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ SOFTWARE \ Microsoft \ Windows \ CurrentVersion \ URL \ DefaultPrefix
http://castlecops.com/postt29869.html
http://www.browsersentinel.com/help/pages.htm
Make sure you feel comfortable about changing the registry if you're going to do it. Making a bad change in the registry will cause more headache than it's worth.
Good luck!
--J.
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