I concur with this bug. It is the singularly most frustrating problem with
IE7. I type something in the address bar and nothing happens, whether it is
an URL (without http:// prepended), or a search query. I count myself lucky
though- the delay for me is only about 10 seconds. I'm also working on
account roaming from its home domain, although I haven't verified that
things work fine when I'm actually connected to the domain. I'm running Vista
RTM.

"jBiehl" wrote:
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> 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].
>
> 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.
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