Posted December 28, 201112 yr comment_691783 In IE8 and earlier, it seems that if you plug in a hostname in the address bar, it will add http:// and a trailing slash by default and things - eg, typing 'helpdesk' resolves to http://helpdesk/ and takes you to our in-house helpdesk. In IE9, it will take you to a web search for the term 'helpdesk' prepending the protocol, 'http://helpdesk' or appending a slash, 'helpdesk/', or a fqdn, 'helpdesk.domain.name' will take you to the right place I assumed this was a policy setting, but have just built a clean non-domain Win7 machine and it behaves the same - IE8 will append the trailing slash and find the host, IE9 will search with bing... once its found the site once, it will always append the the slash (as its in its predictive cache) but then the user moves desks and we're back to square one... Any idea how to restore the old behavior? explaining to users that they now need to put a slash on the end is as tedious for our helpdesk guy as it is frustrating for the the users Continue reading...
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