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re: problems accessing microsoft.com, among other things
Tuesday, January 8, 2008 at 12:36 pm
Windows Vista Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by StephenASiracusa
(18 messages posted)
All things fixed! Turned out to be an MTU setting!
Thx all!
On Thursday, January 3, 2008 at 6:42 am, Stephanie wrote:
>This is my first posting here - I tried searching for answers already posted, but
>couldn't find what I needed. Let me apologize in advance if this is duplicating
someone
>else's questions!
>
>Anyway, around Nov 1 we bought a new HP desktop with Vista. On 12/26 we finally
got
>Qwest DSL and could start connecting to the internet. Since then, I've had the following
>problems:
>1. Windows defender and microsoft update are unable to download any updates (I get
>error 0x80072ee2 )
>2. I can't access any microsoft.com websites ("Page is unable to load" type error)
>for help, using either IE7 or Firefox.
>3. Norton Internet Security: LiveUpdate was unable to correctly update (error LU1812).
>I attempted to completed uninstall ALL Symantec folders/programs from the computer,
>in the hopes that these problems were caused by competition b/w NAV and Defender.
>4. I can't access avast.com to download that antivirus instead. (to be noted, most
>other websites seem to work though - e.g., google.com, wellsfargo.com, cabelas.com,
>amazon.com, etc.)
>5. I installed Quicken on the new computer, and Quicken is unable to update with
>quicken.com. Also, when I try to download financial data from my bank, the data
is
>unable to make it into quicken for some reason.
>
>I've tried lowering my security settings in IE and Firefox, adding microsoft.com
>(etc) to the "safe" websites list, turning OFF the windows defender firewall for
>about 5 minutes, etc. I'm at my wits end!
>
>Again, I apologize if this is a silly question, or if it's already been answered
>but I can't find the answer on this site, but any help you can give me would be
greatly
>appreciated!!
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