Here's one for all you Windows Tweakers.

99% of the time when I open a IE window, I am going to some page other than my default homepage. I never just go to the same page ALL the time, so I always open the window, click on stop, and WAIT, WAIT, WAIT for the action cancelled screen to come up before I can type in the URL.

Now sometimes, that action cancelled page loads fast, but what seems like most of the time, it was like that page was downloading from Pluto or somewhere on the outer edge of our universe, and not from the hard drive on my computer!!! This has always been the case for me, and it's usually only when it's a new window, and not an existing one...?

Is there some way that I can change this page to just be blank? I really think that I know I hit the stop button, and don't really need the MS info on what that means.

Maybe I could even change the Page cannot be displayed page as well???

I'm not a big registry hacker, so I've never looked into it...

Advice?! TIA :lol:

Assuming you are using IE go to tools/internet option,and set the home page to blank.

I don't want to change the home page...

There is nothing wrong with that .... I want to disable the "Action Cancelled" and possibly the "Page Cannot Be Displayed" errors.

Thanks.

find where there stored and changed them

OK ,I miss under stood your post and still Do ,However I just found this with a Google search ;
http://windows.about.com/library/tips/bltip568.htm

And Click on next tip lower down the page .

Nono ... that's not what he means. You know how Internet Explorer will display a default "Page cannot be Displayed" and "Action Cancelled" error page? He wants to replace those default IE pages with a blank page or one of his own pages.

For example, open an IE window and in the address bar, type:

about:

That's the default IE action cancelled page. He wishes to replace this page with his own. or with:

about:blank

Disable friendly HTTP error messages, which will set the server's messages to a higher priority than IE's own version. For example, suppose you visit http://www.daniweb.com/sample.php, which obviously doesn't exist. With friendly HTTP error messages disabled, you'll be redirected to the 404 error page I have set in my .htaccess file on the daniweb.com server. With friendly HTTP error messages enabled, you'll be redirected to IE's own 404 error page (i.e. action cancelled).

caperjack, that link you just posted seems to be just what the doctor ordered.

Yes I do believe it will help !

well, the link you sent caperjack definitely looked like it was just the ticket, and I edited my regsitry, and set them all to just a BLANK page for the time to make sure it all worked, and on my WindowsXP machine.... it did nothing...

I still get the default "Action Cancelled" page, and that's it...

I don't see why the tip wouldn't work, as it looks fine all the way down to the registry... but it actually didn't work for me!?!?

Oh well... I'll just continue on with my windows annoyance for now. :eek:

Even switching to disable "Friendly HTTP error Messages" didn't work for the "action cancelled" page... <sigh>