you may want to clean out anything in your search path (stuff on your
desktop, any non-responding network shares) as IE will search those as
possible links and if they are non-responsive, it would cause IE to wait
until those time out.

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Mike Chan [MSFT]
Sr. Technical Product Manager
Internet Explorer for Enterprises
Microsoft Corporation

This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.
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"Amit Ku" <amitku******.com> wrote in message
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> Environment: Internet Explorer 7, under Windows Vista Business.
>
> In IE, when I type in a URL, such as www.microsoft.com 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. Typing in the full URL, e.g. http://www.microsoft.com works
> just fine and loads the page right away. Typing in the partial URL
> (e.g. www.microsoft.com) and pressing CTRL+ENTER load the page right
> away also.
>
> This is EXTREMELY frustrating. I've posted already with no useful
> replies as yet.
>
> PLEASE READ: This has nothing to do with add ons. I've already tried
> running without add ons multiple times after/before restarts etc etc
> etc. And no it has nothing to do with spyware this is happening on a
> clean install of Vista business.
>
> Save my sanity,
> Amit
>