Ctrl-enter doesn’t convert an address to www.&.com (v.6.0)

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If you type in the main part of an address in the address bar in Internet Explorer and hit Ctrl-Enter, it should add the www. and the .com part to the address (type wopr then ctrl-enter gives you http://www.wopr.com). My computer will not convert the address. It just does a search. Any suggestions?

Thanks,
Becky

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The following solution is mentioned several times in the MS newsgroups. It involves editing the registry; the usual warnings to be very careful apply.

Select Start | Run…
Type RegEdit and press Enter
Navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionExplorerAutoComplete
Make sure that the following settings exist and have the correct value:
“Append Completion”=”no”
“Use AutoComplete”=”yes”
“AutoSuggest”=”no”
(If one of them is lacking, create a new string value)

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Hi Hans:
For what it’s worth, I can use Ctrl+Enter to append www & com to urls, but I have:

“Append Completion”=”Yes”
“Use AutoComplete”=”yes”
“AutoSuggest”=”Yes”

Maybe I should knock on wood (if there’s any left in California).

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Phil,

This seems to be a strange issue; after posting I found recommendations to set Append Completion to No and other recommendations to set it to Yes.

On my Windows XP system with IE 6, I can use Ctrl+Enter as intended. The settings are:

“Append Completion” = “No”
“AutoSuggest” = “Yes”

and there is no “Use AutoComplete” value. Go figure! It makes me suspect that the working of Ctrl+Enter is not associated with this part of the registry at all…

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Hans,
To make the cheese more binding, my settings are:

Auto Completion=yes
Auto suggest=yes

No, Use Auto Complete value.

Ctrl+Enter works fine. There must be some other controlling setting there someplace.

Bob

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The machine is question is a Windows XP Home system with IE 6. It had all three items (Append Completion, Use AutoComplete, and AutoSuggest), and changing the settings didn’t help. I know that this machine is regularly infected with Spyware and the user does use the anti-spyware tools recommended in a post last month, but is it possible that Spyware could be breaking this? They have a broadband connection and two teenagers.

Thanks for all the help,
Becky

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Two teenagers could break anything

Does Ctrl+Enter start the default search page, or a non-standard one? If the latter, it might well be spyware that causes this. Hijacking the search page is a common exploit.

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I don’t have access to the computer right now, so it may be a few days. But that’s a very good question. I’ll have to see what Ctrl+Enter does.

Thanks,
Becky

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This is usually controlled on this box — which corresponds to this exact registry value:

HKCUSoftwareMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionExplorerAutoComplete
Append Completion = “yes”

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Strange thing is, as I remarked earlier in this thread, that Append Completion is set to “no” on my system, yet I can type a web address without “www” and “.com” and complete it by pressing Ctrl+Enter.

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Hmmm… that will teach me to try to do this quickly.

The other possible spot is Tools | Internet Options | Content | AutoComplete | Use AutoComplete for Web Addresses. This links to this registry value:

HKCUSoftwareMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionExplorerAutoComplete
AutoSuggest = “yes”
___________________

On a very quick check, it may be that BOTH of those values need to be “no” for this to NOT work! Sort of a Boolean OR… or is that XOR (I don’t remember). Let me try to verify this.

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OK, I verified it — at least on this computer. If I have BOTH of those values set to “no”, then the “www. .com” does NOT appear when I use Ctrl+Enter. However, if either of the values is set to “yes”, then it works.

In Boolean that would just be a simple OR operator. If either “AutoSuggest” OR “Append Completion” are equal to “yes”, then this works. It won’t work only if both are set to “no”.

Attached is the .reg files for others to test this with.

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Hi Rick,

I think you have nailed it this time. On my system too, if both values are “no”, Ctrl+Enter doesn’t add “www” and “.com”, otherwise, it does.

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Thanks for verifying this! I thought it was kinda strange, but that does seems to be the case.

The registry must be queried by iexplore, and as long as it finds ONE of those with a “yes” value, it goes ahead and does the “appending”. Interesting and unexpected…

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Thanks for verifying this! I thought it was kinda strange, but that does seems to be the case.

The registry must be queried by iexplore, and as long as it finds ONE of those with a “yes” value, it goes ahead and does the “appending”. Interesting and unexpected…

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Hi Rick,

I think you have nailed it this time. On my system too, if both values are “no”, Ctrl+Enter doesn’t add “www” and “.com”, otherwise, it does.

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OK, I verified it — at least on this computer. If I have BOTH of those values set to “no”, then the “www. .com” does NOT appear when I use Ctrl+Enter. However, if either of the values is set to “yes”, then it works.

In Boolean that would just be a simple OR operator. If either “AutoSuggest” OR “Append Completion” are equal to “yes”, then this works. It won’t work only if both are set to “no”.

Attached is the .reg files for others to test this with.

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Hmmm… that will teach me to try to do this quickly.

The other possible spot is Tools | Internet Options | Content | AutoComplete | Use AutoComplete for Web Addresses. This links to this registry value:

HKCUSoftwareMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionExplorerAutoComplete
AutoSuggest = “yes”
___________________

On a very quick check, it may be that BOTH of those values need to be “no” for this to NOT work! Sort of a Boolean OR… or is that XOR (I don’t remember). Let me try to verify this.

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Strange thing is, as I remarked earlier in this thread, that Append Completion is set to “no” on my system, yet I can type a web address without “www” and “.com” and complete it by pressing Ctrl+Enter.

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This is usually controlled on this box — which corresponds to this exact registry value:

HKCUSoftwareMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionExplorerAutoComplete
Append Completion = “yes”

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I don’t have access to the computer right now, so it may be a few days. But that’s a very good question. I’ll have to see what Ctrl+Enter does.

Thanks,
Becky

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Two teenagers could break anything

Does Ctrl+Enter start the default search page, or a non-standard one? If the latter, it might well be spyware that causes this. Hijacking the search page is a common exploit.

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The machine is question is a Windows XP Home system with IE 6. It had all three items (Append Completion, Use AutoComplete, and AutoSuggest), and changing the settings didn’t help. I know that this machine is regularly infected with Spyware and the user does use the anti-spyware tools recommended in a post last month, but is it possible that Spyware could be breaking this? They have a broadband connection and two teenagers.

Thanks for all the help,
Becky

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Phil,

This seems to be a strange issue; after posting I found recommendations to set Append Completion to No and other recommendations to set it to Yes.

On my Windows XP system with IE 6, I can use Ctrl+Enter as intended. The settings are:

“Append Completion” = “No”
“AutoSuggest” = “Yes”

and there is no “Use AutoComplete” value. Go figure! It makes me suspect that the working of Ctrl+Enter is not associated with this part of the registry at all…

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Hi Hans:
For what it’s worth, I can use Ctrl+Enter to append www & com to urls, but I have:

“Append Completion”=”Yes”
“Use AutoComplete”=”yes”
“AutoSuggest”=”Yes”

Maybe I should knock on wood (if there’s any left in California).

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The following solution is mentioned several times in the MS newsgroups. It involves editing the registry; the usual warnings to be very careful apply.

Select Start | Run…
Type RegEdit and press Enter
Navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionExplorerAutoComplete
Make sure that the following settings exist and have the correct value:
“Append Completion”=”no”
“Use AutoComplete”=”yes”
“AutoSuggest”=”no”
(If one of them is lacking, create a new string value)

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(Edited by jaystarter1 on 02-Nov-03 08:18. include screenshot)

I may have this all wrong but could it be a simple thing such as setting the search options in IE tools> internet options>advanced>search from address bar? I remember a similar problem (I think) cured by this

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Hi Jeff,

I tried those settings in various enabled or disabled modes and was still able to Ctrl+Enter to convert an address.
So I don’t think that is the answer either?

Bob

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Hi Jeff,

I tried those settings in various enabled or disabled modes and was still able to Ctrl+Enter to convert an address.
So I don’t think that is the answer either?

Bob

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(Edited by jaystarter1 on 02-Nov-03 08:18. include screenshot)

I may have this all wrong but could it be a simple thing such as setting the search options in IE tools> internet options>advanced>search from address bar? I remember a similar problem (I think) cured by this

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