IE Will Not Respond To Address Bar

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abradaxis - 24 Apr 2006 01:45 GMT

Using IE 6 (latest version), when I enter an address in the address bar at
the top, IE will not respond by going to the site. If I click on a site in
favorites, or on my own personal toolbar, or get to google and the site is
displayed, IE will take me there. But putting in a site at the top of the
address bar now suddenly produces no results. Any suggestions would be
greatly appreciate. Thanks.

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Craig Richards - 28 Apr 2006 14:38 GMT

I have the same symptoms as described by abradaxis. I have also noticed
that I can get to any site by using the full URL, including protocol; ie
www.google.com will not work, but http://www.google.com works fine. I
haven't tried repair install of IE as yet, I will tomorrow if there aren't
any further suggestions forthcoming.

> Using IE 6 (latest version), when I enter an address in the address bar at
> the top, IE will not respond by going to the site. If I click on a site in
> favorites, or on my own personal toolbar, or get to google and the site is
> displayed, IE will take me there. But putting in a site at the top of the
> address bar now suddenly produces no results. Any suggestions would be
> greatly appreciate. Thanks.

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John Wheeler - 01 May 2006 01:50 GMT

This is a problem with one of the latest windows security updates.
Microsoft is supposedly working on a window security update fix. In the
mean time you can go to add/remove programs and remove one of the latest
updates. Not sure exactly which one but it is one of these 4, KB11562,
KB912812, KP908531 or KB911567. If you unload these updates or mostly
likely it is only one of them than the problem will go away, unfortunately
this will be at the expense of your security. Microsoft stated they would
be releasing a fix on 25 April but I have yet to see it.

>I have the same symptoms as described by abradaxis. I have also noticed
>that I can get to any site by using the full URL, including protocol; ie
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>> the top of the address bar now suddenly produces no results. Any
>> suggestions would be greatly appreciate. Thanks.

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Craig Richards - 01 May 2006 03:02 GMT

A repair install of IE fixed this problem for me, probably because it
removed the update(s) mentioned in the above posting?

> This is a problem with one of the latest windows security updates.
> Microsoft is supposedly working on a window security update fix. In the
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>>> the top of the address bar now suddenly produces no results. Any
>>> suggestions would be greatly appreciate. Thanks.

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