Not sure how to stop that, but I have my home page set to Blank. Bobby
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jim Edwards Sent: Thursday, February 16, 2006 7:29 AM To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: [H] how to get web page to stop skimming my text So I start ie with a page like comcast.net But I immediately want to put "powerball" in the address bar to go to powerball.com but midway through the entry the comcast.net hijacks the text to their 'search' space on the page. how can this be stopped?