Well, you could spend a lot of time troubleshooting..

Or you could go to http://www.mozilla.com and download/install firefox and
make that your default browser. I clicked on your link and it worked fine
in firefox.

-Rob

<reenum@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> Greetings everyone. I recently allowed my cousin to use my computer,
> and he decided to play around with the system settings or the registry
> (not sure which one). Now, he can't remember what he did and cannot fix
> the IE problem I am having.
>
> Now, certain webpages will not load, most glaringly, stories on ESPN.
> To illustrate the problem, let me use the following URL:
> http://x.go.com/cgi/x.pl?goto=http:/...120524&srvc=sz
>
> If I click the above, it will not load.
>
> However, if I remove the portion of the URL as follows:
> "http://x.go.com/cgi/x.pl?goto=", then the story will load just fine.
> I'm having the same problem in other browsers, so I'm thinking that a
> registry entry or some system setting was changed.
>
> It seems to me that "http://x.go.com/cgi/x.pl?goto=" redirects the
> browser to the actual story. So, if I can somehow alter the settings to
> allow IE to redirect the URL, I should be fine.
>
> If anyone can help, I would be eternally grateful.
>