Computer help needed.

[Ken C.]

I have a minor annoyances going on in IE6. It seems that when I type in the name of a program in the address bar to search for it (AIM for example) the program starts if I have it installed on my PC. Anyway to prevent that from happening? I'm thinking that there was a registry change somewhere in the search function that is causing .EXE programs to start from the address bar.

 

[Ken C.]

Fixed it. I needed to add the Reg_DWORD value "UseShellParsing".

http://windowsxp.mvps.org/ie/shellparsing.htm

 

[Nordic Viking]

You're just trying to show us how clever you are, aren't you

 

[Ken C.]

You're just trying to show us how clever you are, aren't you

Nope. Just displaying my extraordinary Google skills.

I had this problem once before but I couldn't remember how to resolve it. I had to, shall I say it............SEARCH THE INTERNET FOR THE ANSWER!!!! ME!!! I HAD TO USE GOOGLE TO FIND THE ANSWER!!!! WHOA IS ME!!!! MY I.T. GEEK BUDDIES ARE GONNA RIDICULE ME TO NO END NOW!!!!

 

[Daniel Moore]

...we actually had a thread about an IE problem without any Mozilla/Firefox suggestions?


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IE has never given me any problems, but some people sure do hate it. Glad to hear your shell is parsed. Showoff.

 

[VideoJoe]

RTFM should now be replaced by RAFGS.

Joe