Why would my new Dell computer be unable to find my home page yahoo about 50 per cent of the time?

Edited October 27:

I decided to do a big edit to my previous answer, hopefully to make it more clear...

I am making a few assumptions here, that you have set Yahoo as your home page in your internet preferences. As the person suggested in the post after mine, it may be a good idea to verify that.

The only other explanation I can offer is that the page that you are seeing; Dell, powered by google, may, in fact, be stored on your harddrive, and is the page displayed whenever your browser cannot find a site. You may be booted off a page and back to the Dell page if the web page you are viewing attempts to refresh itself (via a script) when you have lost your connection.

You can verify this theory yourself, if you deliberately sever your internet connection, then look for a web page.... if the google powered by Dell page appears, it was probably on your hard drive all along, and will appear every single time you look for a webpage that can't be found. Of course, I'm purely guessing at this point...

If I happen to be right though, that would mean is that you are having troubles with your internet connection. Not a terribly helpful observation though, as you can lose your internet connection for a variety of reasons, especially if you use a wireless connection.

It could mean your wireless or ethernet adapter isn't correctly configured, a problem with your modem, or possibly your router (if you use one) isn't correctly configured. Or if you have wireless, you may have strayed too far from your access point. It will take some sleuthing skills to identify the problem in such a case.

have you actually made yahoo your homepage on your computer if not go to the yahoo website and they will have a link asking you if you want to make yahoo your homepage,failing that you could also try going into internet options on your computer via contol panel,here you will see an option to type in your homepage near the top of the page just enter the url address for yahoo then click apply,the next time you go on the internet it should take you straight to your chosen homepage.I would advise you to switch your firewall back on and also your pop up blocker unless you want your computer to become infected with spyware and viruses,disabling these has absolutely nothing to do with the problem.I don't know what Ryan L is talking about because i have a dell computer with google and i have had no problem in choosing my homepage.dear sandy why not add yahoo to your favorites folder when you do manage to get on their site,that way if you are redirected while on the internet just click on the favorites folder you should see that yahoo has been stored in you r folder just click on this link and you will be taken to their website.

i think he's have been given a super form of time on his hands, otherwise whilst somebody asks him a query he can say " you chatting with me?"......( i be attentive to, i be attentive to, despite the fact that it merely regarded like an outstanding oportunity )

1. Slow down

2. I strongly suggest you keep the safety items

3. You'll get it

yahoo is notrious for being down.. dont worry about it will come up sooner rather than later.