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Originally posted by LoochTheMan
One night i shut down my computer, and the next day something weird was showing in my internet explorer. I usually type in web adresses without the "www." and it works fine. but now whenever i type it in with out the "www." i get a Microsoft Internet Explorer Alert saying: "Cannot Find '#whatever site i type'. Make sure the Path or Internet address is correct". It is wierd bc the sight i type in is correct bc it works when i add "www."
Does anybody know how to remove this annoying alert, bc its a habbit of me not typing in "www."
Thnkz
First of all, always try to type the FULL url, this includes the "www"-things if they are needed. It is a bad habbit to leave them out...
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Originally posted by LoochTheMan
"Make sure the Path or Internet address is correct". It is wierd bc the sight i type in is correct bc it works when i add "www."
Obviously when you don't add "www." the url is NOT correct...
If you have an url "www.address.com", then "address.com" will NOT work (appart from some big sites). What browsers do (behind your back) is to check if "address.com" is a valid address. In this case it is not, thus the browser adds "www." in front of it and checks again, and thus finds the correct url... Thus, although it may seem that "address.com" is valid, it is NOT...
"www." is only 1 string that browsers add to check for valid urls. In fact, you can edit the list yourself. And this is proberly what's happend to you. A bad or corrupted url-completion list...
To fix this, you can use a program like
Elrise Windows Comstumizer for example, or edit the registry keys yourself: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main\UrlTemplate
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