# Hyperlink doesn't work with new laptop. **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [January 25, 2013, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hyperlink-doesnt-work-with-new-laptop/648346 "2013-01-25T18:35:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Ambivalid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a5b964/32.png) [@Ambivalid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambivalid)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2013, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hyperlink-doesnt-work-with-new-laptop/648346/1 "2013-01-25T18:35:21Z")
Since I’ve been using this new laptop, I’ve been unable to use the “hyperlink” function here on the board. Specifically, when I try to paste the URL of the link into the space provided, it simply doesn’t post. Nothing happens. I should note that this new laptop uses Windows 8; it’s the only difference between it and my previous laptop. Has anyone else experienced such issues? Any idea what I need to do? ---
**Author:** ![voltaire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voltaire/32/313_2.png) [@voltaire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/voltaire)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2013, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hyperlink-doesnt-work-with-new-laptop/648346/2 "2013-01-26T00:03:23Z")
What browser are you using, and does it have any security addons like NoScript, for example? Is JavaScript not enabled in the browser? [noparse] For now, you can always just do the urls manually with: [Text describing link here](http://www.linkhere.com)[/noparse] And, of course, if it’s just a plain out-in-the-open link without text to describe it, you can just paste it straight in your post without using the url button, and the board will make it a clickable link by default. ---
**Author:** ![Ambivalid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a5b964/32.png) [@Ambivalid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambivalid)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2013, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hyperlink-doesnt-work-with-new-laptop/648346/3 "2013-01-26T01:18:31Z")
> [@voltaire](#): > > What browser are you using, and does it have any security addons like NoScript, for example? Is JavaScript not enabled in the browser? > [noparse] > For now, you can always just do the urls manually with: [Text describing link here](http://www.linkhere.com)[/noparse] > > And, of course, if it’s just a plain out-in-the-open link without text to describe it, you can just paste it straight in your post without using the url button, and the board will make it a clickable link by default. I’m using I.E., I’m not sure if JavaScript is enabled or not :o Although I think it is. I know I can always just post links but that is stupid and I don’t like it. :mad: ---
**Author:** ![voltaire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voltaire/32/313_2.png) [@voltaire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/voltaire)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2013, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hyperlink-doesnt-work-with-new-laptop/648346/4 "2013-01-26T01:49:17Z")
> [@Ambivalid](#): > > I’m using I.E., I’m not sure if JavaScript is enabled or not :o Although I think it is. > > I know I can always just post links but that is stupid and I don’t like it. :mad: In your browser’s URL window (where you type the address you want to go to) there should be a blue-looking icon which is the “Compatibility View” icon. Click on that and see if that fixes it. I think it probably will. Otherwise, just go with Firefox. ---
**Author:** ![voltaire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voltaire/32/313_2.png) [@voltaire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/voltaire)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2013, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hyperlink-doesnt-work-with-new-laptop/648346/5 "2013-01-26T01:58:59Z")
[Here are some good instructions](http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/1196-internet-explorer-compatibility-view-turn-off.html) (with pictures) about using Compatibility View, in case you don’t see the icon. ---
**Author:** ![Ambivalid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a5b964/32.png) [@Ambivalid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambivalid)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2013, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hyperlink-doesnt-work-with-new-laptop/648346/6 "2013-01-26T02:05:40Z")
Thanks, I got it [fixed](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=654277) (whatever my last link was). ---
**Author:** ![voltaire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voltaire/32/313_2.png) [@voltaire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/voltaire)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2013, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hyperlink-doesnt-work-with-new-laptop/648346/7 "2013-01-26T02:11:03Z")
> [@Ambivalid](#): > > Thanks, I got it [fixed](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=654277) (whatever my last link was). What fixed it? And what does that link to an old thread have to do with it? I ask for the sake of others who might have the same problem in the future. ---
**Author:** ![Ambivalid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a5b964/32.png) [@Ambivalid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambivalid)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2013, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hyperlink-doesnt-work-with-new-laptop/648346/8 "2013-01-26T02:19:30Z")
> [@voltaire](#): > > What fixed it? And what does that link to an old thread have to do with it? > > I ask for the sake of others who might have the same problem in the future. The link was just whatever I already had “in the holster” from my previous paste, the specificity of the link itself was irrelevant. I just wanted to demonstrate that the hyperlink was again working for me. I hadn’t been using the Desktop browser because it was so slow (I never bothered to figure out why), so when I switched back over to the Desktop and disabled a bunch of programs that were slowing it down, everything was fine.