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email works fine but can't access the webI can send and recieve email fine (thunderbird and outlook) but IE and
firefox both return 'cannot display the webpage' or 'cannot connect' messages. This happens both at home and college. Both connections are fine as have tested with other machines. Anyone have any ideas? On Sat, 12 Aug 2006 02:14:01 -0700, jg wrote:
>I can send and recieve email fine (thunderbird and outlook) but IE and Please check this with http://winhlp.com/wxnet.htm . (Please use>firefox both return 'cannot display the webpage' or 'cannot connect' >messages. This happens both at home and college. Both connections are fine as >have tested with other machines. IE for this page.) One guess would be Winsock corruption through some kind of third party software, possibly adware. Hans-Georg -- No mail, please. Thanks, it did turn out to be a winsock problem - maybe caused by a bad
firewall installation in the past. I used a program called WinSock XP Fix, which sorted it all out. Thanks Show quoteHide quote "Hans-Georg Michna" wrote: > On Sat, 12 Aug 2006 02:14:01 -0700, jg wrote: > > >I can send and recieve email fine (thunderbird and outlook) but IE and > >firefox both return 'cannot display the webpage' or 'cannot connect' > >messages. This happens both at home and college. Both connections are fine as > >have tested with other machines. > > Please check this with http://winhlp.com/wxnet.htm . (Please use > IE for this page.) One guess would be Winsock corruption through > some kind of third party software, possibly adware. > > Hans-Georg > > -- > No mail, please. > On Sat, 12 Aug 2006 16:33:01 -0700, jg wrote:
>Thanks, it did turn out to be a winsock problem - maybe caused by a bad Great! Good luck for the future.>firewall installation in the past. I used a program called WinSock XP Fix, >which sorted it all out. >Thanks Hans-Georg -- No mail, please. 
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