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Just installed XP and IE 6 won't let me go to the Yahoo.com main page - I can get to other Yahoo pages, but yahoo.com comes back with an error that redirects me to MSN.com. Is this some sort of Microsoft ploy??? Anyone else have this problem?
Oh, also, the machine in question is part of a domain and is NATed behind a firewall. Any other machine on the domain can get to yahoo.com with no problems.
Just so you know I have had trouble getting to yahoo too last couple of days. I dont believe its your xp causing it.
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Yahoo mail Beta requires Java installed.
XP comes without Java.
You need Microsoft Java Virtual Machine
Click the link below to get it:And if someone suggests Sun Java - It sucks !
http://www.krm.com/ms/msjavx86.exe
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Perhaps you didn't read my message correctly, I have 20 other machines here with a mix of Win2000, 98 and Mac OS and NONE of them have a problem getting to yahoo.com. The XP machine is the ONLY one that can't get to it. I find it interesting that you would shrug off my comment that XP is causing the problem when all evidence points to the fact that it is INDEED causing the problem.
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yes, but all the other windows systems came with java. XP doesn't, although sp1 provides it. Have you made sure that java is enabled on the xp machine? If not, try that, see what happens at yahoo and post back.
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maybe your admin of the network has misconfigured something in the computer that acts as the gateway (if your office has one)?
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I am the admin of the network. :-) And no, the *ONLY* change (and I do mean only) was adding in that 1 XP machine. It has identical network settings to all the other machines and is able to hit every other site.
I was curious because I remember SP4 for NT originally broke Lotus Notes when it first came out, and I was wondering if this was another *ahem* undocumented feature of Microsoft's.
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You dont need java to visit yahoo.com. Your problem has nothing to do with java. Anyone who suggests to install java to visit yahoo.com made an error.
Please answer this question :
When you say that your being redirected to msn.com what do you mean? Are you actually being redirected to www.msn.com or are you telling us that a search page opens -via-msn.
MSN is the default search engine in IE. Anytime you type a URL in wrong an msn search page will open. This isnt a ploy or conspiracy. This is MSN's search page opening. You can change the default search engine for IE in the option.
If this is whats happening. then A: your typing in the URL wrong. or B: your browser, connection, something is getting confused. I cant even pretend to tell you how to correct that sort of problem.
My suggestion is to repost here after you answer the question above, search google and call up MS in that order.
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I have MS java on one PC and Sun on another .I prefer the sun version 1.401 over the MS version. Though there is really little difference in my opinion. The Sun just seems a little more robust and loads faster Just a little
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I gave sunjava a shot once. I didnt spend much time exploring it because of all the goofy unexplainable errors so i cant say which is really better.
I just know that the MS distro works for me in XP.
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Again I will say, I usually visit yahoo.com myself and usually dont have a problem. Only the last day or two ( not over two days ) Have I been having trouble pulling up the page. Sometimes it loads and sometimes it dont. I believe yahoo is the problem, Usually no problem. One other thing, the other day I hit the yahoo.com website and there was no color on their page at all. It was black and white, the whole page. Never had I seen it like that either. If I am not mistaken it was black and white on sept ll. I thought maybe it was some kinda respect thing for sept ll, but im not sure.
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If you type a incorrect web address in the address bar and hit go. You get a msn looking page saying it couldnt find the address you requested. Here is a example below. This is not what you are seeing is it?
http://auto.search.msn.com/results.asp?cfg=DNSERROR&v=1&FORM=DNSERR&q=www%2Ehihow%2Ecom
I would go into internet options in the control panel and put www.yahoo.com as your homepage and see if it will pull yahoo up when you first open your browser. Maybe if you have msn.com as your homepage that is having something to do with your problem your having.
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I guess I didn't explain myself clearly - when I say I type in "www.yahoo.com" and I'm being redirected to MSN, I meant that the resolution of the yahoo.com main page never happened, I never got a response on port 80 and it bounced to msn.com because that is the default search page for I.E. 6. I realize something is screwed up inside my machine, I just wasn't sure what it was as all my other machines can hit yahoo.com just fine - maybe it is yahoo, maybe it isn't, but the fact of the matter remains that while all my 2000, 98, linux and mac machines can hit www.yahoo.com, my XP machine can't.
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