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bwierzbicki--Just guessing.<br />
IE Tools|Internet Options|General tab|Accessibility section|Languages. &nbsp;At the bottom there is a box to check &quot;Do not add .www to the beginning of web addresses....&quot; &nbsp;Perhaps you have checked that?<br />
Or you could use Shift+Enter after typing the web site name.
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bwierzbicki--Just guessing.
IE Tools|Internet Options|General tab|Accessibility section|Languages.  At the bottom there is a box to check "Do not add .www to the beginning of web addresses...."  Perhaps you have checked that?
Or you could use Shift+Enter after typing the web site name.

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that worked like a champ. Thanks for the info
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that worked like a champ. Thanks for the info

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You are welcome, bwierzbicki !
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I noticed this recently on a machine I cleaned spyware from. On any other machine I can type msn.com or google.com or yahoo.com and the website will be displayed. On this machine I get a &quot;website not found error&quot; in a gray popup. In researching this I foulnd a post that mentioned hitting &quot;ctrl-enter&quot; (I think that was the combo) and it worked, Just an FYI thing.
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I noticed this recently on a machine I cleaned spyware from. On any other machine I can type msn.com or google.com or yahoo.com and the website will be displayed. On this machine I get a "website not found error" in a gray popup. In researching this I foulnd a post that mentioned hitting "ctrl-enter" (I think that was the combo) and it worked, Just an FYI thing.

Why do I have to enter www. in the address bar of IE7 to get to a website

Web browsers are applications used primarily to display documents, files and media from the Internet, identified by a Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) that can be a page, image, video or other file. Some browsers require the use of add-ons or extensions to safely render the information they receive; others have systems built into them to perform the same functions.