# Computer Question - URL's will not highlight and other issues

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/computer-question-urls-will-not-highlight-and-other-issues/347655>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [March 9, 2006, 5:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/computer-question-urls-will-not-highlight-and-other-issues/347655 "2006-03-09T05:55:58Z")\
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**Author:** ![Lochdale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/edb3f5/32.png) [@Lochdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lochdale)\
**Post date:** [March 9, 2006, 5:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/computer-question-urls-will-not-highlight-and-other-issues/347655/1 "2006-03-09T05:55:58Z")

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I’ve check the sticky on computer questions and I didn’t see this one asked/answered. I’ve gone to several other websites without much luck.

Here is the issue.

I have norton, spybot and ad-aware. For some reason whenever I scroll over a URL on a website (e.g. [link](http://www.straightdope.com)

it no longer tells me what site the link is to. In addition, when I click to go to another page or another website I no longer get the egg timer unless I move the cursor to the toolbar and I no longer get the URL on the bottom of the page indicating that it is loading.

Any thoughts or suggestions would be appreciated.

I am using IE and Windows XP as my OS.

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**Author:** ![Reply](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/reply/32/15952_2.png) [@Reply](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reply)\
**Post date:** [March 9, 2006, 6:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/computer-question-urls-will-not-highlight-and-other-issues/347655/2 "2006-03-09T06:24:45Z")

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Not sure if this is what you’re describing, but try toggling View \> Status Bar.