Yes, I've worked with the registry before. I did contact Earthlink and they told me at first that I'm supposed to type in the complete web address and then I told them I suspect it's a DNS problem and they had me enter in some numbers for the preferred and then for the other one, but it didn't work. Also, now I've noticed internet explorer is hanging more and before that practically every time I loaded an internet explorer page I got one of those internet explorer encountered a problem and needs to be closed box. I tried to find out if I have IE 7 Sp2 installed, but from what it looks like I have XP SP2 and just IE7. I couldn't locate the IE SP2 at Microsoft Website so I figured it isn't available anymore or I already have it or something. I did make sure all updates have been installed and they have been. I will go where you want me to in the registry to further fix this issue. Ok for that registry key there were 6 keys listed.
Name Type Data Default REG_SZ (value not set) Ftp REG_SZ ftp:// Gopher REG_SZ gopher:// Home REG_SZ http:// Mosaic REG_SZ http:// www REG_SZ http:// Elizabeth McCree -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ceresia Sent: Wednesday, December 03, 2008 3:24 PM To: Computer Tech Support Subject: [5996] Re: internet setting Elizabeth, Do you think you could navigate the registry if I asked you to? I want you to check something for me. Go to START RUN type regedit in regedit I want you to go to: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\ SOFTWARE\ Microsoft\ Windows\ CurrentVersion\ URL\ Prefixes Yes it is buried deep. Can you type the NAME, TYPE, and DATA fields listed in there? Usually isn't more then 5 different lines. Thanks! On Dec 3, 3:16 pm, "Elizabeth McCree" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks for replying to me. I do have Internet Explorer 7 though right > now unsure if it's sp2 or not, I believe it is. When I click on help > in IE about IE it shows it's IE7, but doesn't show if it's service > pack 2 or not. I guess I will contact earthlink to see if they have > this included in their internet connections. > > Elizabeth McCree > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ceresia > Sent: Wednesday, December 03, 2008 10:47 AM > To: Computer Tech Support > Subject: [5994] Re: internet setting > > Most websites work without the www because the actual website masks to > the WWW name, example. I type newegg.com and it resolves > towww.newegg.com. > > My DNS server and internet explorer tell it that I am trying to go > towww.newegg.comeven though I enter newegg.com > > Some websites do not have this luxury and will not work unless you put > the www in it. The CTRL+enter works well, its easier to type ebay and > hit > crtl+enter then it is to type ebay.com > > as far as your computer and earthlink go... > Make sure you have the updated internet explorer, should be version 7, > check this by going to "Help" and "About Internet Explorer" > > I have windows XP SP2 with Internet explorer 7 and I can type > newegg.com and getwww.newegg.com. This should work on all computers. > You might want to check with Earthlink's DNS team and make sure they > are resolving www. addresses to the right ones. They may have > "Half-assed" it and not written the rules...- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Computer Tech Support" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/computer-tech-support?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
