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Today I found on this site today that a member had a problem just like mine in 2005, with IE's address bar not working properly. I am having the same problem, and have had since Nov. Every "tech support" paid service I have tried can't solve my problem. I am now also having a problem with Windows Explorer too.

IE takes up to 2 minutes to find and load a page if I only type the www.~~.com in the address bar, but if I type the entire address, including the http://www.~~.com then IE brings the page up immediately.

Windows Explorer takes about 20-60 seconds to load a list of my drives and files anytime I click the dropdown arrow to navigate to a different area (like to save a file to desktop instead of in my docs.)

For now, this forum is my last hope, as the paid "tech support" I have used have instructed me to restore my computer to factory defaults, which I obviously hate to do...

Can anyone help? Please...

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Member Avatar for jkdas

did you install any updates or install any software prior to having this problem?

Member Avatar for Stylish

Hmm. Could be either spyware or a hard drive going bad.

IE -> Internet Options -> Advanced -> Enable Third Party Addons (uncheck this fella)

It may or may not help.

Member Avatar for MidiMagic

This sounds like your ISP having trouble with urls which don't have the http prefix.

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