Internet Explorer Help Desk

 

Warning!!!: Using the Windows Registry Editor incorrectly can cause serious problems requiring the re-installation of your operating system and possible loss of data. I do not and will not support problems that arise from you editing your own registry. Use the Registry Editor and my directions at your own risk. Be sure that you create a backup of your registry and be very sure that you know how to restore it. If you are not sure how to do both of these things then STOP here!! and read the directions.


Go to Start>Run>regedit and navigate to this key:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\URL\DefaultPrefix]

The correct setting should bC:

Default ="http://"

Then navigate to:

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\URL\Prefixes]
and check the following settings:

"ftp"="ftp://"
"gopher"="gopher://"
"home"="http://"
"mosaic"="http://"
"www"="http://"

To make the process even easier a file named url.txt can be downloaded here.
Unzip the file to your desktop (or other handy folder) and rename the file extension from txt to reg. R-click the file and choose "Merge" to merge it into the registry and it will correct the above values.

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