Computer Question - RESOLVED - THANKS

Paully_44 · Postby **Paully_44** » March 18th, 2008, 9:54 am

HogWild wrote:Both...

so much for my name resolution theory. You are getting and IP and can successfully ping, so that indicates your network settings are good. You can send/receive email so that shows you connection to your ISP is good. I have to agree with Bill, that it sounds like a proxy issue.

HogWild · Postby **HogWild** » March 18th, 2008, 10:07 am

How do I correct that?

The problem did not seem to exist prior to Netscape being installed. Once Netscape was installed - IE ceased to operate.

Even after removing Netscape and rolling back to IE6 nothing has changed.

RamboPreacher · Postby **RamboPreacher** » March 18th, 2008, 10:07 am

Paully_44 wrote:
HogWild wrote:Both...
so much for my name resolution theory. You are getting and IP and can successfully ping, so that indicates your network settings are good. You can send/receive email so that shows you connection to your ISP is good. I have to agree with Bill, that it sounds like a proxy issue.

or registry-redirection/host file manipulation. if they install firefox (or netscape) and can get to the beb, then that shows that it's not a network issue, or ports or firewall. the app itself is being redirected somehow.

HogWild · Postby **HogWild** » March 18th, 2008, 10:10 am

I've played around with the host files - not sure how to tell if the problem is here or not.

RamboPreacher · Postby **RamboPreacher** » March 18th, 2008, 10:17 am

HogWild wrote:I've played around with the host files - not sure how to tell if the problem is here or not.

by default, there shouldn't be any entries in the host file other than self.

not sure if this is worth anythnig, but have you tried opening IE, go to tools, adn programs and make sure it is the default browser?

HogWild · Postby **HogWild** » March 18th, 2008, 10:20 am

Yeah, it's the default browser.

Host file seems to be fine.

i can ping - I can send/receive Email - I just cannot use IE.

I also tried to reisntall IE7 by downloading the extacting file onto my laptop and trasnferring it but it then wants to connect and update before installing. Of course, it cannot connect...

RamboPreacher · Postby **RamboPreacher** » March 18th, 2008, 10:24 am

HogWild wrote:Yeah, it's the default browser.

Host file seems to be fine.

i can ping - I can send/receive Email - I just cannot use IE.

I also tried to reisntall IE7 by downloading the extacting file onto my laptop and trasnferring it but it then wants to connect and update before installing. Of course, it cannot connect...

have you tried firefox? (not that it's a solution, necessarily - though is my preferred browser - it may help troubleshooting if you can actually get on the web.)

HogWild · Postby **HogWild** » March 18th, 2008, 10:26 am

Will I be able to download it and transfer it over?

HogWild · Postby **HogWild** » March 18th, 2008, 10:28 am

Downloading Firefox now to my laptop... Will try it the problem PC...

HogWild · Postby **HogWild** » March 18th, 2008, 10:37 am

Firefox will not connect to the internet...

HogWild · Postby **HogWild** » March 18th, 2008, 11:32 am

Someone mentioned the registry... Is there anything I can do or try with that?

Alan · Postby **Alan** » March 18th, 2008, 2:05 pm

I would download AVG Antispyware and give it a try. I am confused that Netscape worked but IE and Firefox don't, it sounds like a malware issue to me, it shouldn't be a proxy issue if neither browser works.

Is there any type of "Internet Security" software on the computer? I've seen Norton and McAffee suites cause problems like this.

HogWild · Postby **HogWild** » March 18th, 2008, 2:48 pm

I finally gave up - just finished a full recovery. Everyhing is working fine now. Go figure.

CantBCoy · Postby **CantBCoy** » March 18th, 2008, 4:24 pm

As long as you don't lose files a clean sweep is always easier to do to fix most any problem...imo. Glad it's working.

RamboPreacher · Postby **RamboPreacher** » March 19th, 2008, 3:19 am

CantBCoy wrote:As long as you don't lose files a clean sweep is always easier to do to fix most any problem...imo. Glad it's working.

yup, absolutely. over the years, I have changed my paradigm of storing "data" to a single folder with subfolders for categorization. that way the one folder can be backed up and get "everything" (applications are easy enough to re-install).

later with home networking, that folder was copied to a location on the network. then after that, synchronizing tools made that easier. and after that, a replication/synchronizing ability allowed the data to be co-located for performance, and real time backup.

clear as mud?

my next step was actually a step backward as far as real time goes, but in lieu of portability. now have a (large, soon to be upgraded to an even larger) thumb drive that replaces that folder, and contains ALL my "data".

That USB drive is encrypted, and gets backed up manually (semi-automated) when I plug it in at a certain one of my home computers. so not real time, but I can now have my data available at any computer I happen to be using. in fact the next step that I have taken in having my data be portable, is to have as many apps as I can, also be portable.

http://portableapps.com/ is a great source for having many apps that not only load on the thumb drive, but run from there with no footprint on the base computer. in fact, I have some 1 and 2 gig thumbdrives laying around that I have loaded the portable suite on and given away to folks that don't otherwise have a computer, but can access other computers, such at local colleges and libraries.

bottom line - keep YOUR data close (backed up and encrypted) to you and don't rely so much on specific systems.

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