Whenever I type an address in the address bar without using www I get
"windows cannot find '(name of site)' Please check the spelling and try again
error. If i use the www it goes through. is there a way to correct that?

"styles" <styles@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:F823CF05-856C-4494-BDDC-C2F3BC01B2A7@microsoft.com...
> Whenever I type an address in the address bar without using www I get
> "windows cannot find '(name of site)' Please check the spelling and try again
> error. If i use the www it goes through. is there a way to correct that?


You can't just willy nilly decide to use a domain name for a host name.
Some sites redirect their domain names to an appropriate host, some don't.
Some domain names don't even have IP addresses.

Hint: use nslookup (in a cmd window) to check for IP addresses or alias names.
If the lookup involves a canonical name you may find that there is a delay
doing it which makes first time requests less reliable. Then you may need
to ping both the alias name and its canonical name in order to get them
in the dnscache long enough for IE to continue using the alias. Etc.


FYI

Robert Aldwinckle
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This is with everything I type in though. My other PC with IE 7 does not do
it. Is there anything else it could be?

"Robert Aldwinckle" wrote:

> "styles" <styles@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:F823CF05-856C-4494-BDDC-C2F3BC01B2A7@microsoft.com...
> > Whenever I type an address in the address bar without using www I get
> > "windows cannot find '(name of site)' Please check the spelling and try again
> > error. If i use the www it goes through. is there a way to correct that?
>
>
> You can't just willy nilly decide to use a domain name for a host name.
> Some sites redirect their domain names to an appropriate host, some don't.
> Some domain names don't even have IP addresses.
>
> Hint: use nslookup (in a cmd window) to check for IP addresses or alias names.
> If the lookup involves a canonical name you may find that there is a delay
> doing it which makes first time requests less reliable. Then you may need
> to ping both the alias name and its canonical name in order to get them
> in the dnscache long enough for IE to continue using the alias. Etc.
>
>
> FYI
>
> Robert Aldwinckle
> ---
>
>
>

I have the same problem and also explore.exe could not load so I'm without
desktop.
My windows 2003 server is working fine for file sharing , web and everithing
else is working. No error message in event viewer, anything. Doesn't seem to
be a virus, no strange traffic on the lan, no bad process...

Please help me



"styles" wrote:

> This is with everything I type in though. My other PC with IE 7 does not do
> it. Is there anything else it could be?
>
> "Robert Aldwinckle" wrote:
>
> > "styles" <styles@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> > news:F823CF05-856C-4494-BDDC-C2F3BC01B2A7@microsoft.com...
> > > Whenever I type an address in the address bar without using www I get
> > > "windows cannot find '(name of site)' Please check the spelling and try again
> > > error. If i use the www it goes through. is there a way to correct that?
> >
> >
> > You can't just willy nilly decide to use a domain name for a host name.
> > Some sites redirect their domain names to an appropriate host, some don't.
> > Some domain names don't even have IP addresses.
> >
> > Hint: use nslookup (in a cmd window) to check for IP addresses or alias names.
> > If the lookup involves a canonical name you may find that there is a delay
> > doing it which makes first time requests less reliable. Then you may need
> > to ping both the alias name and its canonical name in order to get them
> > in the dnscache long enough for IE to continue using the alias. Etc.
> >
> >
> > FYI
> >
> > Robert Aldwinckle
> > ---
> >
> >
> >