home page does not load upon connection

[Guest]

When I click on Internet Explorer on my desktop a pop up window comes up that
shows i'm connecting via my isp. then, i am connected but the home page does
not load, instead it says the page is not available. it used to load without
problem. if i click on refresh it loads. it used to load upon connection but
now doesn't. it's as if it is trying to load the home page before i'm
connected. i contacted my isp and reset/deleted everything and they said too
that for some reason internet explorer is trying to load my home page before
i'm connected. what do you suggest? ( if i click on my isp's desktop icon
and wait until it loads and then click on my internet explorer icon, it
loads).

I posted this exact problem a few days ago and was advised to download
update and run adawars, spybot, cwshredder, lspfix, etc. etc. yadda yadda
yadda it still doesn't load. Next Idea???

 

[Guest]

I've noticed the same problem, but only after I loaded SP2. My PC is free
from viruses and spyware, I think that there may me sight bug in the SP2
software. When I uninstalled SP the problem cleared up for most pages that I
couldn't access before but the problem still exist, to a lesser extent.

 

[dave]

even though i think homepages are a waste of band width. i
usually click the internet connection icon which connects
(it doen't launch the browser, in case yours is setup to do
that). then i open up my browser and then go to one of many
bookmarked pages with never a problem.