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BING HAS NOT WORKED ON MY COMPUTER SINCE FIRST CHANGE. ERROR NOTIFICATION SENT TO MSN
Latest post: Syning, Tuesday, April 5, 2011 5:20 PM
Wednesday, March 9, 2011 12:30 PM
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BING HAS NOT WORKED SINCE FIRST UPGRADE. ADVISED MSN EACH TIME IT DIDN;T WORK THRU THEIR ERROR SYSTEM
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Wednesday, March 9, 2011 3:21 PM
Stephen Boots (MVP - Windows Live)
What, exactly, does this mean?
Bing is a web site -- http://www.bing.com -- where you perform searches.
The Bing Toolbar is an Internet Explorer add-in.
What upgrade?
"Advised MSN" means what?
Please note that typing in all capital letters is considered shouting. Turn off the CAPS lock key and please provide more details on what you mean. Tell us your operating system. Tell us what "has not worked" means. Error messages? Exact behavior?
-steve
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Friday, March 11, 2011 3:04 AM
Syning
When I click on the Bing icon in bar to search a topic I receive a pop up box informing me to save or download the file. It will not search my topic. No matter what page i am on this happens. I even get it when I click on the icon on my home page to got to Bing. Help!!
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Friday, March 11, 2011 3:21 AM
Syning
Dear Stephen,
    I too am having this problem. I can't seem to get Bing to work either. I type the http://www.bing.com in my addi bar and I get a file download box asking what I want to do save it or download later, neither work for ever time I get this box.  When I try to search an item the same box comes up. I know it's a web page but I can not get to it. I used google to search it and when I click on the page guess what the Box appears. Quite annoying!! I have Windows XP MSN dial-up Bing is my defaul search engine it is located on my tool bar comes with it as you know and is lcated in on my internet explorer as a tool bar add on. I am not sure what is going on for it was work a bit ago and now it's NOT. Any info or help would be great. Syn
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Friday, March 11, 2011 8:27 AM
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Friday, March 11, 2011 1:22 PM
Stephen Boots (MVP - Windows Live)
Interesting, Syning.
I assume that you are clicking the Bing icon on the MSN Explorer toolbar and also typing http://www.bing.com in MSN Explorer.
Do you have the same experience if you open Internet Explorer and type http://www.bing.com in the address bar?
When you say that you search Google and the same thing happens when you click a link, it sounds to me like there's a core problem with the operating system or the web browser, IE.
Unless MSN Support can step in here, I'm at a loss. What security program are you using? If you disable it temporarily, does the problem go away?
-steve
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Friday, March 11, 2011 1:24 PM
Stephen Boots (MVP - Windows Live)
Just had another thought -- might be a long shot. Go to Windows Update and see if you are offered an update for Silverlight. If so, install it. If not, open Control Panel/Add or Remove Programs and uninstall Silverlight. The install Silverlight from here: http://www.microsoft.com/getsilverlight/Get-Started/Install/Default.aspx
-steve
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Friday, March 11, 2011 1:27 PM
Stephen Boots (MVP - Windows Live)
I see the MSN Support has ignored this thread, but posted here: http://answers.msn.com/thread.aspx?threadid=301f007c-8874-47d2-99b6-366c7fc22fb8 to advise that this is a known issue under investigation. I don't know that it is a "known issue" -- however, it would appear that it isn't rare and the cause hasn't yet been determined.
-steve
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Friday, March 11, 2011 1:28 PM
Stephen Boots (MVP - Windows Live)
This discussion is also in this thread - http://answers.msn.com/thread.aspx?threadid=5c40afe5-a8e1-4816-b23c-c128ae3bed7b

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Tuesday, March 29, 2011 9:19 PM
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