'Search' problem

castle96

Hi. Windows 8/Vista. HP Pavilion a6421.uk desktop.
When I use IE to seach for something, I get the message below,, yet when I click on any of my list of 'favourites' list, no problem connecting. I have to search using Mozilla Firefox - no problem with that. Why is this/how to correct ? Thanks



Interenet Explorer cannot display the webpage
What you can try:

Diagnose Connection Problems

[URL="res://ieframe.dll/dnserror.htm#"][IMG]res://ieframe.dll/down.png[/IMG][/URL][URL="javascript:expandCollapse('infoBlockID', true);"]More information[/URL]

Lucero_2

castle96 wrote: »

Hi. Windows 8/Vista.

Which is it?

Either way, your default search has been removed, corrupted, whatever. You can do a full IE reset if you go to Internet Options > Advanced > Reset

castle96

hmm, not sure/how to tell. Vista I think.

Internet options>Advanced>.... OK, but Reset ?/ Reset what ??

castle96

Under Internet Options>General.Search>Settinggs, various search engines are listed as follows


AOL Not available Not available
AVG Secure Enabled Not available
Bing Default Disabled Disabled
Google Enabled Not available


? Seems I am using (well not) Bing, which is disabled. I can change the default OK,, but even the others are shown as not available > Confused

castle96

Internet Options>Programs>Default Web Browser.

"IE is not currently the default web browser"

do I click to change this ?, ie to make IE the default browser

castle96

changed the default browser (under IO>Programs) to IE - no difference - now cant change it back

changed the default browser (IO>General>Search>Settings) to Google - no difference

Lucero_2

Sorry. I don't mean to appear rude. But you can't tell the difference between Windows 8 and Windows Vista?

Windows 8 (released back end of last year)


Windows Vista (released in 2006)


Anyway, this is what you are looking for:

castle96

ah sorry - found it
IO>Advanced>Reset
but, when I click reset message comes up "before you can reset IE settings you must close all other windows and programs"

Obviously if I do that, I have no IO box open to click on the reset button.

Sorry if I am being dim here !

castle96

right - sorry again.
Now, the rest button works....but it will reset all of the following - DO I want to do all those as well...or am I opening a can of worms

Disable toolbars
Default Web browser - that all I want to change
Privacy
Security
Advanced Options
Tabbed browsing settings
Pop ups

Lucero_2

Yes, we can configure the rest back with relative ease

And it means, all other programs other than IE. Once done, you need to then close IE and repopen

castle96

seems to have worked (it also upgraded me to Windows 9 (or was it IE 9 - it flashed too quickly). I can now search on IE - many thanks.

Dont know what else it may have changed though ...

Again thanks for your patience