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Guest
I have a problem which is preventing almost all of my programs from using the
Internet.
I have four different web browsers installed: Microsoft Internet Explorer,
Avant, Opera and Firefox.
At the moment, only IE and FireFox work properly.
Avant and Opera act as if my PC is not connected to the Internet at all.
When I try to access a web page, I get the 'page could not be found' as if a
page did not exist or as if I had no connection. The error page comes up
immediately - the browsers do not even spend time looking for a page or
waiting for a response. The update button on each browser also gives me a
'could not connect' error.
Outlook Express appears to be suffering the same problem - it acts as if I
have no connection active.
Several of my other programs also seem afflicted, but only when trying to
get information from the Internet.
It appears that my programs think that there is no available Internet
connection.
I have already tried adding affected programs to my firewall's exception
list - I have even gone as far as switching the firewall off.
I have tried to use System Restore as far back as possible, to no avail.
However, I have had this problem for a long time so perhaps I made a change
before my earliest remaining Restore Point.
And yes, I am certain that I am, in fact, connected to the Internet. I am
using Dial-Up ADSL (my computer has always treated it as ordinary dialup),
and as far as I can remember I have not changed the Properties of my
connection since a long time before this problem begun - my backup
connections also give the same problem, so it seems unrelated to that. I have
not changed my hardware configuration either.
Short of reinstalling Windows, could somebody please help me to correct this?
Thanks in advance,
-Deek
Internet.
I have four different web browsers installed: Microsoft Internet Explorer,
Avant, Opera and Firefox.
At the moment, only IE and FireFox work properly.
Avant and Opera act as if my PC is not connected to the Internet at all.
When I try to access a web page, I get the 'page could not be found' as if a
page did not exist or as if I had no connection. The error page comes up
immediately - the browsers do not even spend time looking for a page or
waiting for a response. The update button on each browser also gives me a
'could not connect' error.
Outlook Express appears to be suffering the same problem - it acts as if I
have no connection active.
Several of my other programs also seem afflicted, but only when trying to
get information from the Internet.
It appears that my programs think that there is no available Internet
connection.
I have already tried adding affected programs to my firewall's exception
list - I have even gone as far as switching the firewall off.
I have tried to use System Restore as far back as possible, to no avail.
However, I have had this problem for a long time so perhaps I made a change
before my earliest remaining Restore Point.
And yes, I am certain that I am, in fact, connected to the Internet. I am
using Dial-Up ADSL (my computer has always treated it as ordinary dialup),
and as far as I can remember I have not changed the Properties of my
connection since a long time before this problem begun - my backup
connections also give the same problem, so it seems unrelated to that. I have
not changed my hardware configuration either.
Short of reinstalling Windows, could somebody please help me to correct this?
Thanks in advance,
-Deek