Opening IE8

I would rather try to change the way you wrote the address in your Internet
Options for Home Page, before doing any scan.
For example: http://www.google.com does not work in IE8 but it does in IE7.
In IE8 I had to change to http://google.com works fine.


"artnlsn" <anlsn RemoveThis @bellsouth.net> wrote in message
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> Using XP: lately, when I open IE8 from the desktop icon, instead of
> opening my homepage (my.msn.com) I get a window which says Internet
> Explorer cannot display the webpage.
> If I click on the Refresh button, the homepage may open or it may take
> 20-30 seconds before opening. Changing the home page does not help.
> This is something new - usually the home page opens right away. Any help
> would be appreciated. Thanks.
>

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Learner wrote:
> I would rather try to change the way you wrote the address in your
> Internet Options for Home Page, before doing any scan.
> For example: http://www.google.com does not work in IE8 but it does
> in IE7. In IE8 I had to change to http://google.com works fine.

What?

http://www.google.com/ and http://google.com/ both work in Internet Explorer
7 and Internet Explorer 8.

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Shenan Stanley
MS-MVP
--
How To Ask Questions The Smart Way
http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

May be you never experienced the problem ( i have xp pro sp3) but I
installed ie8 yesterday and I found today that I had the problem that is
mentionned in this thread, everytime I wanted a new tab I had the problem.
I solved it by removing the www in the address.

And because of your comment, I tested again changing my default home page to
http://www.google.com and it works now. However, I had to change the
address to make it work, not changing the address would have give me nothing
and doing the scan would not have give me the page connection.

"Shenan Stanley" <newshelper DeleteThis @gmail.com> wrote in message
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> <snipped>
>
> Learner wrote:
>> I would rather try to change the way you wrote the address in your
>> Internet Options for Home Page, before doing any scan.
>> For example: http://www.google.com does not work in IE8 but it does
>> in IE7. In IE8 I had to change to http://google.com works fine.
>
> What?
>
> http://www.google.com/ and http://google.com/ both work in Internet
> Explorer 7 and Internet Explorer 8.
>
> --
> Shenan Stanley
> MS-MVP
> --
> How To Ask Questions The Smart Way
> http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
>

"artnlsn" <anlsn.TakeThisOut@bellsouth.net> wrote in message
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> Using XP: lately, when I open IE8 from the desktop icon, instead of
> opening my homepage (my.msn.com) I get a window which says Internet
> Explorer cannot display the webpage.
> If I click on the Refresh button, the homepage may open or it may take
> 20-30 seconds before opening. Changing the home page does not help.
> This is something new - usually the home page opens right away. Any help
> would be appreciated. Thanks.

I had exactly the same problem. I never did figure it out. The only
difference was that whatever page I tried to open failed when IE8 first
opened. Refreshing the page opened the page as you report.

It was eventually cured when I was forced to do a clean install of XP.

Sorry for the delay in responding to the group: Checking the internet
addresses I discovered all my addresses are without the www including my
home address so this is not a factor.
I then cleaned my computer using my spyware, malware etc programs (including
ccleaner) and that eliminated the problem.
Many thanks to Shenan for the help.

"artnlsn" <anlsn.TakeThisOut@bellsouth.net> wrote in message
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> Using XP: lately, when I open IE8 from the desktop icon, instead of
> opening my homepage (my.msn.com) I get a window which says Internet
> Explorer cannot display the webpage.
> If I click on the Refresh button, the homepage may open or it may take
> 20-30 seconds before opening. Changing the home page does not help.
> This is something new - usually the home page opens right away. Any help
> would be appreciated. Thanks.
>