Vista keeps thinking it is offline

I have Windows Vista Ultimate, clean install... moderate hardware, nothing
too slouchy, but not top of the line when it comes to Vista, I'm sure. 2gb
of RAM, 256mb nvidia card, etc. etc.

I have at least two really big nasty problems that are plaguing me... one of
which is driving me absolutely insane:

1. Whenever opening Windows Mail or Internet Explorer, Vista thinks there
is no network connection available. It complains to either go to work
offline or try again. Clicking try again always succeeds. I'm using a
wired network card behind a Linksys router that has worked fine for XP and
Linux for years.

2. Windows Mail is the most unstable insanity I've seen in a lifetime. God
forbid you try to use it with a Courier IMAP server... every message opens
with an error, every folder change halts just about every operation. Why
wasn't the Windows Mail IMAP support reviewed? What a showstopper. Why
bother to offer IMAP support with such unfinished code?

--Verm

On Mon, 5 Mar 2007 22:19:07 -0600, "Vermyndax" <vermyndax@hotmail.com>
wrote:

>I have Windows Vista Ultimate, clean install... moderate hardware, nothing
>too slouchy, but not top of the line when it comes to Vista, I'm sure. 2gb
>of RAM, 256mb nvidia card, etc. etc.
>
>I have at least two really big nasty problems that are plaguing me... one of
>which is driving me absolutely insane:
>
>1. Whenever opening Windows Mail or Internet Explorer, Vista thinks there
>is no network connection available. It complains to either go to work
>offline or try again. Clicking try again always succeeds. I'm using a
>wired network card behind a Linksys router that has worked fine for XP and
>Linux for years.
>
>2. Windows Mail is the most unstable insanity I've seen in a lifetime. God
>forbid you try to use it with a Courier IMAP server... every message opens
>with an error, every folder change halts just about every operation. Why
>wasn't the Windows Mail IMAP support reviewed? What a showstopper. Why
>bother to offer IMAP support with such unfinished code?
>
>--Verm


Welcome to the club. For #1 I had a similar stupid problem when IE7 if
I was surfing and my ISP refreshed my IP address as they do
automatically from time to time IE7 would keep saying I was offline
but I wasn't since I have a fast broadband connection. Maybe this easy
fix, will work for you. I forgot who tipped me off to look in IE7's
settings, I kept trying to "fix" what Windows kept saying was broke
from Networks and that never worked.

Try this:

Go to IE7, on the Tool Bar, select Tools, Internet Options, then
Connections. If you see a MSN icon for dial-up AND you don't really
have a MSN account, then select never dial a connection and to be
extra safe delete any line in the top box if you see a MSN icon there
or any bogus dial-up you don't have. Worked for me.

Thanks for the tip, Adam, but unfortunately, I do not have any dial-up
connections and it's already set to "never dial a connection."

--Verm

"Adam Albright" <AA@ABC.net> wrote in message
news:1srpu2lpl8jhcusj5f72ar86ui0qsebckr@4ax.com...
>
> Welcome to the club. For #1 I had a similar stupid problem when IE7 if
> I was surfing and my ISP refreshed my IP address as they do
> automatically from time to time IE7 would keep saying I was offline
> but I wasn't since I have a fast broadband connection. Maybe this easy
> fix, will work for you. I forgot who tipped me off to look in IE7's
> settings, I kept trying to "fix" what Windows kept saying was broke
> from Networks and that never worked.
>
> Try this:
>
> Go to IE7, on the Tool Bar, select Tools, Internet Options, then
> Connections. If you see a MSN icon for dial-up AND you don't really
> have a MSN account, then select never dial a connection and to be
> extra safe delete any line in the top box if you see a MSN icon there
> or any bogus dial-up you don't have. Worked for me.
>
>
>

Went back to my good ol' friend Thunderbird (and Firefox) and all works
well.

--Verm

Vermyndax wrote:
> Thanks for the tip, Adam, but unfortunately, I do not have any dial-up
> connections and it's already set to "never dial a connection."