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IE9 and adress bar questions
okay I am just going to explain how I have always used my address bar(until recently), but on other systems it doesn't see to work. I have always been able to type in words in the address bar and it would search based on my default search engine. At the same time, which i don't know how this worked, it would use dns short names to resolve addresses locally. For example if I typed ps3 games, it would go to bing and do a search for ps3 games. If I typed in web, it would resolve to http://web/ which is our local web page. I wouldn't have to put a / after web or type in http.
But now this doesn't work and I have only been able to find this information online: One-word Intranet Sites take you to your default search engine with Internet Explorer 9 but even this really doesn't see to function the same. For example if I type in ps3 it automatically changes to http://ps3/, doesn't resolve and then sends it to Bing to resolve.
I don't know, maybe that is how it always worked. But I never had to modify the registry on my system. I have loaded Win7 3 times and it just worked. I thought there was an option in ie9 and that is why it didn't work on other systems in the the office.
Any ideas?