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Why does the Ctrl+ENTER URL shortcut not work on some PCs?

CZroe

CZroe

Lifer
I've used this shortcut for entering www. and .com since IE4 was released on Win95. For some reason, I keep running into machines that ignore the shortcut's existance. At one job, I am increasingly annoyed because nearly every computer the owner builds somehow doesn't recognize the shortcut. I'm typing this on an XP Pro machine which doesn't even do it! It must be some software that he installs. All I know of that he puts on every PC is mIRC! Also, at my other job there is a Win95 PC with IE5 or 6 which does not support the shortcut. There is nothing on there that would seem to affect that. At first I thought it was because it didn't have the IE4 desktop update but then I found that it does work on other 95a systems.

A little help? 😀
 
I've also seen and been agitated by some machines having it and some not... your post drove me over the edge so I had to find out.

After some searching through the settings, I found it!

Go to Tools -> Internet Options -> Content -> AutoComplete and make sure "Web Addresses" is checked.

Just to be sure, I unchecked it and suddenly Ctrl+Enter no longer worked. Rechecked it and life is good again!

Thanks for pushing me to do something I'd meant to do but kept putting off!

Joe
 
wow, that is an awesome feature.. i have never known about that... much more convenient than always typing .com or www.

thx for the advice 😀
 
Originally posted by: Netopia
I've also seen and been agitated by some machines having it and some not... your post drove me over the edge so I had to find out.

After some searching through the settings, I found it!

Go to Tools -> Internet Options -> Content -> AutoComplete and make sure "Web Addresses" is checked.

Just to be sure, I unchecked it and suddenly Ctrl+Enter no longer worked. Rechecked it and life is good again!

Thanks for pushing me to do something I'd meant to do but kept putting off!

Joe
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Thanks! Worked like a charm on this computer! I wonder why MS doesn't seperate the options and leave CTRL+ENTER available (It's not the same as Auto-Complete)? I think some of the work PCs I've ran into had Auto-Complete enabled and still didn't work with it. I'm now wondering how it keeps getting disabled on these other PCs at my other job...

Originally posted by: viper118
wow, that is an awesome feature.. i have never known about that... much more convenient than always typing .com or www.

thx for the advice 😀
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Then you might like this one:

Hold SHIFT and click a link to open it in a new window. Really helps on those annoying pages that disable right-clicking with Javascript.
 
I'd also like to see them give shift+enter for .net addresses and maybe alt+enter for .org's ... but I'm not gonna hold my breath.

Joe
 
Originally posted by: Netopia
I'd also like to see them give shift+enter for .net addresses and maybe alt+enter for .org's ... but I'm not gonna hold my breath.

Joe
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Me niether, but wow, that would be cool.

 
Opera doesn't even need it. Just type in the root part of a domain and you're in (tested for COMs at least). IE goes out to a search engine which is somewhat helpful.
 
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