for example, if i type mosaicretail.com the browser doesn't know what to do, but if i type www.mosaicretail.com it goes right where i need it to go.
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Well, the answer is quite technical, so I hope I don't confuse you too much. Basically, the answer has to do with how the computer decides WHERE www.mosaicretail.com is actually located on the internet.\n\nEvery computer that's connected to the internet has what is called an IP address. (IP stands for "internet protocol".) An IP address is like the internet equivilant of a telephone number -- whenever one computer needs to send data to another computer, it contacts the other computer using its IP address. (An IP address looks like a series of numbers seperated by periods, for example 124.34.25.52)\n\nWhen you enter a website address such as www.mosaicretail.com, your computer must first find the IP address of the computer hosting the website before it can contact it. To do this, the computer first contacts what is called the DNS, which stands for Domain Name Service (or Server, or System). A Domain Name is an address such as yahoo.com or mosaicretail.com. You will often see the term used by web hosting sites that allow you to have your own "domain", e.g. your own web address like www.yourwebsite.com. The Domain Name Service takes the domain name like mosaicretail.com and looks up the correct IP address, which is in this case is 63.66.49.131.\n\nHere's a trick: if you know the IP address of the server you want to connect to, you can enter that in the web address bar. For example, try entering http://207.171.175.29 instead of http://www.amazon.com.\n\nNow, in the case of mosaicretail.com, the error message you see ("Unable to determine which web page to re-direct you to. Please re-check your URL and try again") is actually NOT a problem with your web browser. The web browser correctly looks up the IP address of mosaicretail.com (63.66.49.131), contacts the web server and displays the information. The error message you see is actually what some dufus put up as the web site! (I'm not making this up.)\n\nNow, in addition to the "primary" Domain Name (such as amazon.com or yahoo.com or mosaicretail.com), a website can have what are called sub-domains. A sub-domain is a part of the web address that goes BEFORE the "primary" domain. Yahoo! uses a lot of subdomains, for example, my.yahoo.com uses a primary domain yahoo.com and a sub domain my. There are also answers.yahoo.com and search.yahoo.com and music.yahoo.com and messenger.yahoo.com and so forth. In each case, the primary domain is yahoo.com and the sub-domains are answers, search, music, and messenger, respectfully.\n\nIf you understand this so far, you probably understand that nearly every website on the internet has a sub-domain called www. Thus, mosaicretail.com is the primary domain but has a sub-domain of www which you access by typing www.mosaicretail.com. Get it?\n\nHere's where all this comes around to answer your question (finally!). A sub-domain can be registered to any IP address, just like a primary domain. For almost every website on the internet, the www sub-domain will be registered to the same address as its primary domain (so that, for example, typing amazon.com and www.amazon.com will do the same thing). However, this is not ALWAYS the case. A sub-domain could be registered to a DIFFERENT IP address than the primary domain. Your website does this. mosaicretail.com is registered to IP address 63.66.49.131, which returns the stupid webpage that you encountered. However, it's www sub-domain is registered to a different IP address, 63.77.193.10, and is thus a different web server altogether, which appears as www.mosaic.com\n\nIn conclusion, if a sub-domain is registered to a different IP address than the primary domain, then if one of the IP addresses doesn't work (e.g. the server is down or whatever) then one address will return an error while the other still works.\n\nI really hope that makes sense.
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web site was typed wrong, or server may not be responding hard to say
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In the example above, "yoursever" is your website.  For example, if you own billybob123.com, you would replace "yourserver" with "billybob123.com" in the above example, so it would look like http://billybob123.com/catalog/inst..."  Don't try to click on that link, it won't go anywhere.  :-)\n\nI think the above example is assuming you do have your own domain.  I'm not sure what to do if you're using something like geocities or your ISP's personal webspace.  If the program name indicates what it does, you might not be able to.  If you adminster a domain, and need help, whoever gives you tech support should be able to help.  If you don't....  I don't know what to tell you, but I do wish you luck!
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open IE- Tools _ internet option and check the home page, if it is yahoo then there is no problem.If it is not yahoo.com then change to yahoo.com\nAnother reason why this happens is, if you have an aol connection, as soon as you connect to the internet the 1st page that goes is to the homepage of the ISP. AM not sure about this, someone may give you a beter answer.
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if u want to type "www.sample.com", just type "sample" and press Ctrl+Enter. It will change become http://www.sample.com
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Mine did this too and I have searched everything! \nThis morning I thought I would try to reload Office and it worked!!  My address bar accepts me just typing the www.domain.com.  When I reloaded Office I did a fix errors on my installation.  \nHope it works for you!  \nGood Luck!!!\nNo longer Frustrated
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You're going to a directory, not a page.\nEvidently, there are no default pages set up for that \nparticular directory.
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In Internet Explorer, Tools ==> Internet Options\nIn the window that comes up...Select the Security Tab\n\nIn the top half, you will see different Web Zones ( Internet, Intranet, Trusted/Restricted sites )\n\nWhile the Internet ( globe ) is selected...Look in the bottom half.  You will see a slider for the security level for the selected Web Zone.  By default it will be at "Medium"\n\nYou will also see a button called "Custom Level".\n\nIf you click on this button,  you will see another window open up and there you will see the ActiveX control etc.\n\np.s.\nIf you're sure about the site you are having problem with, ( before monkeying around with the ActiveX setttings ), just lower the security level, a notch, at a time...from Medium to Medium Low and then to Low.  Everytime you change your security level, see whether the web site/page you're having problem with loads.\n\nIf you feel you messed it up too much, just click on the "Default Level" button and you're back to Okay settings.\n\nHope this helps
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Well, go to address bar and type the website of your choice
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Try using another browser.
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Check if your website URL(Address) for spelling & format...\ni.e. http://www.something.com  or .net or .org or other domains\n\nIf you cannot determine that, search in Google for correct site address..\nhttp://www.google.co.in\n\nAnd if your site address is fine...and it still takes it some other website you havent heard off.... you PC is infected with SPYWARE..\nRemove spyware by installing antispyware like \nAdware SE: http://www.lavasoft.de/software/adaware/
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I'm sorry, but are you talking about a forum on another site?  If such a thing happens on both computer it's probably the site's problem.
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Something that I do when I need to do this is i use Mozilla Firefox and Internet Explorer. http://www.getfirefox.com . It works perfectly.
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I am thinking perhaps that it has something to do with the "display mixed content" setting. Perhaps you accidentally clicked on not allowing unsecure content on a page..although with ALL http...? Go to tools, internet options, security settings, and go down to display mixed content and make it to allow instead of prompt...\nThat is a strange one all right!
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that was happening to me because when I went to tools > internet options, when i had my correct home page address I'd click ok, and it wouldn't take the address I entered until I hit apply.  might want to try that, I haven't had my home page change since then except that Norton 2006 changed my home page until I configured that feature of Norton.  Good luck
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As soon as Answers Yahoo recognizes the prefix http://www.blahblahblah then it puts it on as a hyperlink.\n\n\nJust type out the link with the prefix http:// like http://www.google.com and it will automatically set it up as a link.
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Your security settings can usually be bypassed to allow all sites you want to see. It could simply be that their security certificates are a different type, or the cookie configuration, or it collects data etc\n\nTry the helpline