"jBiehl" <jBiehl@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:099007A4-4438-4F8D-8984-4FEEAA701A0A@microsoft.com...[color=blue]
>I am having an interesting issue with Internet Explorer 7, under Windows
> Vista Business RTM. In IE, when I type in a URL, such as [url]www.microsoft.com[/url]
> and press the enter key (or click the go button) nothing happens for a long
> time. If I leave the browser window alone, about 5 minutes later the page
> will load.
>
> In my troubleshooting, I have found that typing in the full URL, e.g.
> [url]http://www.microsoft.com[/url] works just fine and loads the page right away. I’ve
> also found that typing in the partial URL (e.g. [url]www.microsoft.com[/url]) and
> pressing CTRL+ENTER load the page right away also. Though, this doesn’t work
> for non-.com addresses; e.g. [url]www.uiuc.edu[/url]. Instead, IE tries to navigate to
> [url]www.uiuc.edu.com[/url].[/color]


You could do those too now using the new Prefix and Suffix options
in the Language Preference dialog. Previously a regedit would have
been required.

AFAIK search from the Address bar used to be required to enable the
Ctrl-Enter anachronism but it seems that this may no longer be true?
In that case disabling Search from the Address bar may do both things
for you--allow you to use Ctrl-Enter and bypass whatever it is that is
causing you such long waits when you don't use a protocol prefix on
a partial URL.

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>
> The most interesting thing I’ve found in my troubleshooting is that this
> ONLY occurs when I am NOT in my office; when I’m disconnected from my active
> directory network (my machine is joined to my University’s Active Directory
> Domain). At the office, typing in [url]www.microsoft.com[/url] works right away, but
> from my home DSL or a café hotspot, I am plagued with the problem.
>
> Has anyone else had this problem and been able to work around it? This
> seems like some type of DNS bug associated with my Domain settings, but I’m
> really not sure.[/color]


My guess is it's a symptom of spyware being present.


Good luck

Robert Aldwinckle
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