Lost web site access

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I had access to a web-site for a few years. Yesterday and today when I click
the icon in my favorites, the page attempts to load. I get a white screen,
the word done in the lower left corner and nothing else.
I verified the site is active.
I deleted the shortcut, deleted the cookie associated with the site,
rebooted my system and tried again, with the same result. All other links
seem to be working fine.
Win XP Home, SP2, 2.6ghz, 512mb.
New HD installed by factory on 2/19/05.
 
Have you tried to access the web site from a different PC? It could be that
the web site was/is down or gone.
 
Are using the same Internet service as you? ISP's may get problems with
their service.
 
jmac said:
I had access to a web-site for a few years. Yesterday and today when I
click the icon in my favorites, the page attempts to load. I get a
white screen, the word done in the lower left corner and nothing else.
I verified the site is active.
I deleted the shortcut, deleted the cookie associated with the site,
rebooted my system and tried again, with the same result. All other
links seem to be working fine.
Win XP Home, SP2, 2.6ghz, 512mb.
New HD installed by factory on 2/19/05.
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Since you haven't given us the url, no one can test it for you or see
what might be the problem. In the meantime, check your hosts file to
see if some malware might be preventing you from accessing the site:

1. In XP's Search preferences, set the files and folders handling to
Advanced, and then check the box that will make Search look in hidden
files/folders.
2. Now enter the search term "hosts" without the quotes.
3. You will get several hosts and lmhosts files. Double-click each one
to open it. When you do this, you'll get a Windows dialog box saying
that Windows cannot open this file, do you want to use the web or
select from a list to find the proper program. Choose "select from a
list" and highlight Notepad. Make sure the box to always use this
program to open this type of file is not checked.
4. Now carefully examine the file. Lines that begin with a # are
comments and don't count. Leave them alone. Unless you know you use a
proxy server to get to the Internet or you added entries yourself, the
only uncommented entry that should be there is:

127.0.0.1 localhost

If you see any other entries, delete them and Save the file. Make sure
you scroll all the way down to the bottom of the window if there is a
scrollbar. Do this for each file you found.

Malke
 
jmac said:
The site I am trying to access is www.peeron.com
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Cute site. I didn't have any problems with it at all. It does start out
with this javascript (not the same as Java):

<html><head><title>Peeron™ LEGO&copy; Set Inventories</title>
<script type="text/javascript"><!--
if (top.location != self.location) {top.location =
self.location}//--></script>

Maybe you have security settings in place that are blocking javascript?
Look in your Internet Options. Also, if you have third-party security
software like Norton Internet Security perhaps there is a setting in
there preventing this from working.

Malke
 

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