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by qballrail

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Very frustrating situation: Afer a URL is typed into the Address field of IE, NOTHING happens. Hitting Enter, clicking Go are all ignored. Occasionally, it will navigate to the URL typed but only after nearly 2 minutes. Clicking on Favorites or links are no problem, it's just typed URL's.

XP Pro SP1; IE 6.0 and all current updates installed.

Any suggestions?

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by qballrail

System Works does not report any problems, disks have been defragged and virus defs all updated with no virii detected on regular scans.

by da_showstopper

I had experienced such problem before but it only occured when I was stopped my homepage from loading on opening internet explorer or when i type a new web address on the address bar before my homepage loads completely.
If this is similar to the problem u have, i suggest u let your homepage load properly first or u change your homepage to the address web address u want to load
If u didn't experience this problem immediately u installed windows, i suggest that u use System Restore or u reinstall windows XP and try it first before installing any update.
If u do not experience any rpoblem after u reinstall, install all the programs and updates u initially had one by one and check if internet explorer would give the same problem aftereach installation or update.
I hope this cures your problem and don't forget to rate my answer

by qballrail

Good suggestion, but not really applicable. This occurs even after the page has completely loaded (I use Google because it's a pretty fast loader -- no frills ;)), no matter what page is up, actually. Not sure if something so drastic as reinstalling XP would be overkill. Thanks for trying tho :)

by ann777

Delete everything in c:\windows\prefetch

Your explorer prefetches have probably been corrupted... but it is also recommended to delete everthing in this folder at least monthly on WinXP.

by qballrail

Thanks, Anna. That seemed to help. I also found that site to be quite useful. Much appreciated!

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