re: Update works but no IE or Firefox
Friday, May 30, 2008 at 9:59 am
Windows Vista Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by John Liebson
(845 messages posted)
That there seems to be no connection to the Internet is likely caused by there being
no connection to the Internet....
First thing to check is always whatever firewall you are using. See this document,
for example:
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Error_loading_any_website
On Friday, May 30, 2008 at 6:54 am, Gary wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>Been away for a while to return to return to find the kids laptop running Home Premium
>has the 2 monitors in the taskbar & can do all updates but IE7 or Firefox or progs
>that use the net I suspect on running like Spybot or Adaware seem to fail. No specific
>error just can't locate any web pages as if no connection.
>
>I've tried with wireless & an RJ45 cable etc but it must be good (ish) coz update
>from Microsoft works.
>
>It also works in safe mode, so I disabled all startup stuff in msconfig but still
>no joy. I can't recall how to do a repair of IE but Firefox etc doesn't work so
am
>lost for now. Still playing but in case it's easy and someone knows I thought I'd
>ask.
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