All of a sudden I lost my ability to do a search using the address. I get
the message site not found. I can go out and get a site using favorites. I
can do a search using google, but not the address line. This happened
yesterday. I have done a system restore, but it still does not search.
Help!

Hi,

Have a look at IE, Tools, Internet Options, Advanced. The latest but one
part is the one dedicated to searching from the address bar. Make sure you
have "Do not search ..." unchecked.

Kind regards

Hans Le Roy
MS MVP Windows/IE

"Longmere" <Longmere@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:859F1821-F083-4F79-B90F-140655716285@microsoft.com...
> All of a sudden I lost my ability to do a search using the address. I get
> the message site not found. I can go out and get a site using favorites.
I
> can do a search using google, but not the address line. This happened
> yesterday. I have done a system restore, but it still does not search.
> Help!

Also the ICQ and Cool Web Search toolbars replace the IE SearchHook COM with
their own variant. You can download a registry fix for this from

http://www.iecustomizer.com/Searchhookfixdownload.htm

"Hans Le Roy" <hlrNO@SPAMmvps.org> wrote in message
news:eWmWaJABGHA.608@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
> Hi,
>
> Have a look at IE, Tools, Internet Options, Advanced. The latest but one
> part is the one dedicated to searching from the address bar. Make sure you
> have "Do not search ..." unchecked.
>
> Kind regards
>
> Hans Le Roy
> MS MVP Windows/IE
>
> "Longmere" <Longmere@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:859F1821-F083-4F79-B90F-140655716285@microsoft.com...
> > All of a sudden I lost my ability to do a search using the address. I
get
> > the message site not found. I can go out and get a site using
favorites.
> I
> > can do a search using google, but not the address line. This happened
> > yesterday. I have done a system restore, but it still does not search.
> > Help!
>
>

I tried that and still am not able to do a search from the address box. Any
other suggestions? Why would this stop working all of a sudden? I did a
virus search to see if I have any bugs, none.

"Hans Le Roy" wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Have a look at IE, Tools, Internet Options, Advanced. The latest but one
> part is the one dedicated to searching from the address bar. Make sure you
> have "Do not search ..." unchecked.
>
> Kind regards
>
> Hans Le Roy
> MS MVP Windows/IE
>
> "Longmere" <Longmere@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:859F1821-F083-4F79-B90F-140655716285@microsoft.com...
> > All of a sudden I lost my ability to do a search using the address. I get
> > the message site not found. I can go out and get a site using favorites.
> I
> > can do a search using google, but not the address line. This happened
> > yesterday. I have done a system restore, but it still does not search.
> > Help!
>
>
>

Hello Longmere,

> All of a sudden I lost my ability to do a search using the address.

All who have problems with the IE address bar I recommend to switch to the
Quero Toolbar which is a powerful replacment.

http://www.quero.at/

regards,

Viktor