Is there some kind of setting that specifies whether IE should insert
http:// automatically if you don't type it in?

Something I downloaded, I don't know what changed my IE throbber how do I
change it back to the one with the Windows Logo w/ the world going around it?

I am the admin of my home PC and i am not able to access many of the secured
or not secured pages it requires admin password which i do not remember. I
guess some how my kids got to set a content adv. password while i was logged
in as admin.

Just recently - IE 6.0.2 stopped working. I can't access the internet and all
I get is "The page cannot be displayed" I had to install Opera to get to the
Microsoft web site. I can't even uninstall as it does not (I repeat - does
NOT) display in the Add/Remove programs list. I'm ...

Whenever I exit IE - or often when simply navigating to a new page - I get a
message in the System Tray stating "about: blank - Microsoft" soon to be
followed by a Dr.Watson Postmortem Debugger message and then IE aborts.
Anyone else seeing this problem?  Any ideas?  

I like Firefox's search box, which lets you choose one of several web sites
to search from your toolbar.
It would be even better if this was something user-programmable, ie select a
search box at any site and make it instantly directly searchable from the

Hello,
My Home page is set to Google but when i start internet explorer it takes
shows me the default page. I tried changing the default page but it has'nt
helped me. Is my explorer messed up.

Hey all-
My browser (6.0.2900 SP2) is doing something strange.  I have turned off
autocomplete, and blown away the history with Tools->Internet Options.
Yet, when I type in www.y in the web address window, it autocompletes to

I've just reinstalled W2K and updated to IE6 and SP4.  I was having this
problem before the updates, and it has not been resolved.
I can use IE just fine for browsing the web, but when I try to open any
local file IE is set to open in my folder options, I get an alert saying that

Hi.  I was hoping someone in this newsgroup may be able to help me out.
Thanks in advance.
Eric
Thanks Ramesh.  Would you be able to give me the low down, step-by-step if

Web pages with Java applets do not load in IE.
I have the required settings under Options -> Security and Options -> Advanced
Any ideas how I can get it to work?
btw, the applets load in Mozilla Firefox

This latest rotten site which has hijacked my daughter's computer and
many others is suddenly doing rather well according to alexa. Check the
stats:
<http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details?&range=2y&size=medium&compare_
sites=&y=r&url=http://www.oldgames.se>

Thank you very much gentelman for your kind answers, you should excuse
me for not making myself more clearer the first time as english is not
my mother tounge.
Here is what I meant...

After using the browser for a while, when attempting to save an image from
the web, you can only save as a BMP file.  The only fix is to delete the
entire contents of the temporary files.  This bug has been around for
several versions of IE.  Does Microsoft plan to actually pay ...

I am having some trouble with my IE5, I can't sent any email at all, because
when I click "New message" button, the message body doesn't allow me to type
any words at all. I can't think of any way to fix it, can I ask how I can
reinstall the IE? Thanks