Bob F wrote:
> Bob F wrote:
>> I have had this problem for months, and would love to solve it.
>>
>> Occasionally, when I open a new window in IE7, the new window will
>> never connect to the internet. It just sits there until it gives up
>> opening my home page (Google). Refreshing does not help.
>>
>> If I leave that page and open another, that one may work fine, or I
>> might need to open up to 3 more before I get one that works. I can go
>> back to any of the unsuccessful pages and refresh, but that never
>> helps. Opening additional pages after the next successful one usually
>> works, at least for awhile.
>> So far, I have been unable to find anyone else with this problem.
>>
>> Q8200 processor on GA-p31-DS3l 4GB RAM. Win XP SP3
>> Comcast internel on DOCSIS 2 modem
>
> HAs anyone else ever seen this?
Things that can go wrong.
1) Third party "network helper" package, is shooting you in the foot.
Maybe some CD you installed, that was supposed to make "easy networking",
broke things. Sometimes an antivirus/malware product, either while IE7
is being installed, or afterwards, is interfering with it.
2) General networking. Since you can eventually get a web page working,
I don't see a point going here at the moment. Usually, there are
either built-in troubleshooters, or you can find a tool on
a place like
www.microsoft.com/fixit, that can help with
general plumbing problems.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/308007
3) The browser itself has "toolbars and addons". One of the first
things they'll ask you to do, is find a menu that allows those
to be disabled. Perhaps, in a Start menu, you see two options
for starting the browser, the first "normal", the second "Safe".
If that isn't an option, then check the menus while the browser
is running, for an option to disable add-ons. Then exit, and do
some testing.
4) In years past, the browser had "automatic proxy detection".
The browser would look on the local network, for a device that
provided a proxy or intermediary, for web surfing. We used to
have something like that at work. If you disable the proxy feature,
then the browser is supposed to fend for itself, and use regular
requests to the network. At work, that was probably the first
thing I'd disable in a browser :-) Second thing, would be to
fix the home page entry :-)
5) If you look in Add/Remove, some of the bigger software packages,
offer "repair" as well as "remove" options. What a "repair" would
do, is install the software, register DLLs and the like. What it
won't necessarily do for you, is reset any bad settings you might
have made by accident.
To test the accident scenario, you can try creating another user
account, effectively starting a profile from scratch. If that works,
then you'd know it was *some* kind of setting that was doing it.
Perhaps you could create a new user and give that a try.
Those are a few general hints, as I don't know for sure, what
those symptoms equate to. It sounds like "the plumbing is cleared"
after the plumbing is tested once, for lack of a better description.
With vanilla networking in the picture, that just shouldn't happen.
And commands like ipconfig, ping, nslookup and the like (in (2) above),
can help prove that the plumbing works immediately when you want it.
There is probably a newsgroup for internet explorer questions, where
you might get more focused help. Using a search engine, I can find
problem descriptions similar to yours, so keep looking. I'm just
not good enough, to walk you through all the steps and guarantee
a fix.
Paul
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