Hi,

Cheers for that, I don't use the ICQ toolbar the only one I use is google,
but I did have the EarthLink toolbar on for a short time.

All the other settings are the same.

--
Regards
Alan Sawyer


"Rob Parsons" wrote:

> Hi Alan,
>
> Are you using the ICQ toolbar? This may alter the Address bar url behavior.
> Post back here and I can give you a fix for it.
>
> Alternatively if this is not the case check your values for the following
> registry key
>
> HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\Curr entVersion\URL
>
> Here are my settings.
>
> [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\Curr entVersion\URL]
>
> [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\Curr entVersion\URL\DefaultPre
> fix]
> @="http://"
>
> [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\Curr entVersion\URL\Prefixes]
> "ftp"="ftp://"
> "gopher"="gopher://"
> "home"="http://"
> "mosaic"="http://"
> "www"="http://"
>
> Usually these settings are altered by some spyware toolbars, so check for
> malware too!
>
> "Alan" <Alan@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:FA52B1E5-2F02-4D71-8AA9-49BA2696A13F@microsoft.com...
> > Hi,
> >
> > I've noticed that if I enter www.google.co.uk or similar into the address
> > bar and press go or hit enter. Internet Explorer 6 sp1 hangs and creates
> an
> > error in the application log file stating this. However if I enter
> > http://www.google.co.uk everything is fine.
> > I've enusred that everthing is upto date, re-installed the latest patches,
> > ran spybot which only found cookies which have now been deleted, it is
> also
> > running MS AntiSpyWare.
> >
> > I've also entered regsvr32 urlmon.dll
> > reset all registry settings back to default.
> >
> > Has anyone got any over ideas?
> >
> > --
> > Regards
> > Alan Sawyer
>
>
>