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Ari
My laptop, which I've had for a little over a year, is
currently running XP. Due to problems with our wireless
network at home this summer (I'm a college student living
away from home) my computer had no Internet access over
the summer until just a month ago, when I installed all
sorts of necessary Windows Updates/patches.
The catch? Ever since installing said patches Internet
Explorer randomly seems to think I'm no longer connected
to the Internet and all I can produce are hosts of those
irritating "DNS error - unable to download page" pages.
However, other programs using the internet at the time
(Outlook, AIM, my firewall, etc.) don't lose the
connection at all. This problem lasts until the computer
is rebooted or - in extreme cases - I do a System
Restore. I tried upgrading to IE 6.0, which seemed to
work... until 30 minutes ago, when the problem appeared
again. I know this isn't an isolated case, because our
computer at home seems to be afflicted with the same
issue. (My father, I'm sure, would also love to hear
about a fix!) So can anyone tell me what's wrong here,
and how to fix it, before I get fed up and move on to a
new browser?
currently running XP. Due to problems with our wireless
network at home this summer (I'm a college student living
away from home) my computer had no Internet access over
the summer until just a month ago, when I installed all
sorts of necessary Windows Updates/patches.
The catch? Ever since installing said patches Internet
Explorer randomly seems to think I'm no longer connected
to the Internet and all I can produce are hosts of those
irritating "DNS error - unable to download page" pages.
However, other programs using the internet at the time
(Outlook, AIM, my firewall, etc.) don't lose the
connection at all. This problem lasts until the computer
is rebooted or - in extreme cases - I do a System
Restore. I tried upgrading to IE 6.0, which seemed to
work... until 30 minutes ago, when the problem appeared
again. I know this isn't an isolated case, because our
computer at home seems to be afflicted with the same
issue. (My father, I'm sure, would also love to hear
about a fix!) So can anyone tell me what's wrong here,
and how to fix it, before I get fed up and move on to a
new browser?