Hi all !!

I have been surfing these forums fo a while now and you guys have been very helpful!!. Thanks!! :)

I have a ded with VO.

A client reported me that some of his clients using ie6.0 on XP cant access his site using the simple way of typing www.somesite.com, they have to actually type http://somesite.com to enter the site.

They reach the site, but it just promt for a file download instead of showing the page. :eek:

The page is a simple static html one.

Any clues?

Thanks in advance

What's the complete URL, I have XP w/ IE 6.0

The first problem sounds like they don't have a search page set up properly. You know when you enter a "www.whatever.com" URL that doesn't exist, and that search page comes up (NineMSN in my case)? Perhaps they haven't set up their browser with such a page. I'm not sure where the setting is though.

The second sounds like a very serious problem with file associations on their computer... but I'm not sure with that one.

the URL is www.intertax.com.mx

Please vive it a try typing it without the www also

Thank you in advance :)

Originally posted by luisfalcon
the URL is www.intertax.com.mx

Please vive it a try typing it without the www also

Thank you in advance :)


Worked both ways for me.

Works for me too.

You both have ie6.0 on XP?

I have IE6 on XP and it works fine for me.

The page doesn't load with "www" in front of it..but it does load without "www". That right there would be a server problem though.

BTW..I'm IE6 on Win2k

Works for me with or without www; IE 6 w/ XP

Seems like a Microsoft Conspiracy.....go for an Open Source browser instead !


PS: It works fine on my IE 6 / XP too. :cool:

Originally posted by mkaufman
The page doesn't load with "www" in front of it..but it does load without "www". That right there would be a server problem though.

BTW..I'm IE6 on Win2k

It just doesn´t load or it promts for a file download?

Thanks in advance

Luis Falcon

I encountered this problem with IE6 SP1 on Windows 2000.

Turns out that spyware had been installed on my machine & it broke IE so that I had to type http to make a link work.

Run "Hijack This" and take a look at what it comes up with. Do not delete everything it finds, some of it will be legitimate stuff. You will see registry entries for what your searchbar should be, etc. pointing to a website. Remove those entries & your browser will work again.

I would give you the address for Hijack this, but I can't since I haven't posted 5 times. Just do a search.

is it a new domain or nw changes dns?

i m also facing this problem... but after 72hours it's working fine...

i think is isp issues