Cannot browse the web, but connected to net (Page cannot be displa

[Guest]

Good day,

I have a machine running WinXP Home SP2 and while the machine is connected
to the home network, I can't browse the web. I can ping the router as well
as machines outside the domain and I can send and receive email with Outlook
Express. However, IE6 can't connect to anything. Not even the router. I
get a page cannot be displayed error. Since I can ping and send/receive
email, I'm presuming the problem is with IE and not my network settings on
the machine. Other machines on the network connect fine.

Any help would be appreciated.
Robert

 

[Hans Le Roy]

Hi Robert,

Did you check your Connection settings under Tools, Internet Options? If you
can't find anything, just delete the connection and recreate it.

Kind regards

Hans Le Roy
MS MVP Win/IE-OE

 

[Frank Saunders, MS-MVP]

Good day,

I have a machine running WinXP Home SP2 and while the machine is
connected to the home network, I can't browse the web. I can ping
the router as well as machines outside the domain and I can send and
receive email with Outlook Express. However, IE6 can't connect to
anything. Not even the router. I get a page cannot be displayed
error. Since I can ping and send/receive email, I'm presuming the
problem is with IE and not my network settings on the machine. Other
machines on the network connect fine.

Any help would be appreciated.
Robert

Try LSP-Fix - a free program to repair damaged Winsock 2 stacks
http://www.cexx.org/lspfix.htm
and WinSockFix
http://www.spychecker.com/program/winsockxpfix.html
WinXP SP2: netsh winsock reset

--
Frank Saunders, MS-MVP, IE/OE
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Protect your PC
http://www.microsoft.com/security/protect/

 

[Guest]

Hi Robert,

I had the same problem until very recently.
I was able to access the net with all other software I had installed except
IE6.
It turns out the problem was because Norton Internet Security had blocked all
internet connections for the IE6 program. I had not asked it to do this but
assume it detected some sort of virus and it did it automatically.

If you have a locally installed version of Norton (or some other Internet
Security software) it is worth checking the firewall settings and
configurations to check the programs it has blocked.

For Norton you select the Firewall heading and select configure. This will
give
you a number of options which include programs.