"http" problem, please help

Recently my internet explorer seems to have messed up. I
used to be able to go to a website by typing in "www...."
Now, I got a site not found message, with suggestions
for similar sites, which are usually the site I wanted to
go to. It seems that the only way I can go to a site is
if I type in "http://" followed by the site. I've
compared my desktop's internet settings to my laptop's,
they're the same. I also tried reloading my OS. Can
anyone help?

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"Rich" wrote:
Recently my internet explorer seems to have messed up. I
used to be able to go to a website by typing in "www...."
Now, I got a site not found message, with suggestions
for similar sites, which are usually the site I wanted to
go to. It seems that the only way I can go to a site is
if I type in "http://" followed by the site. I've
compared my desktop's internet settings to my laptop's,
they're the same. I also tried reloading my OS. Can
anyone help?

From a post by Mike Burgess.

Verify the following entries are correct in the Registry:

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\Curr entVersion\URL\DefaultPre
fix]
@="http://"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\Curr entVersion\URL\Prefixes]
"ftp"="ftp://"
"gopher"="gopher://"
"home"="http://"
"mosaic"="http://"
"www"="http://"