Solved ? Mark in Address Bar

[huffman]

Using IE9 and Windows 7 Pro fully updated.

When I type in and address into the address box in IE9 I get a ? Mark in front of the address.



How do I fix this? This started about a month ago. With the ? mark there is will NOT go to the address typed in.

 

[Brink]

Hello Huffman,

The question mark in the address bar of IE9 is to do a search for whatever you type after it.

You should be able to backspace to remove the question mark to be able to use the address bar to type in a URL instead.

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/119534-internet-explorer-9-search.html

Hope this helps,
Shawn

 

[huffman]

I am not wanting to do a search. I want it to go to that address.

The ? mark is something that only started about a month ago and a PITA.

I will give your suggest a try. Thank you

 

[huffman]

I have tried everything I know to remove the search feature that creates the ? mark.

What puzzles me is that even if I remove the ? after it is created, it will return as soon as I click on Go

It is not funny because I can NOT type in any address and go to that site.

 

[Brink]

Odd. Usually you would have to type the ? instead if it being there by default.

You might see if disabling all your search providers and search suggestions in IE may stop this.

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/119587-internet-explorer-search-suggestions-enable-disable.html
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If that doesn't help, then you could try completely resetting IE.

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/1222-internet-explorer-reset.html
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[huffman]

Right now here are my search providers:



I use Google Search exclusively to search and it works great; I don't want or need IE to search from the address bar.

 

[Brink]

If you select each search provider in the right pane, there should be a Search in the address bar box in the bottom pane of them to uncheck to see if that may help.

Even so, I never had it have the ? in the address bar for me by default.

If that doesn't help, then reset IE to see if that may. You can always re-enable any toolbar, add-on, search provider, etc... one by one afterwards to see if one may be the culprit.

 

[huffman]

Problem solved. I finally read all the on page Manage Add-On --> Search Providers. At the bottom of that page the box was checked for "Search in Address Bar" and I unchecked it and now I am back to where I want to be.

Thanks for all the suggestions guys.

 

[Brink]

You're most welcome. Great news.