IE6 wont connect unless I go through control panel/microsoft up

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windows XP/SP2 all updates,NO SYPWARE OR MAILWARE, DSL connection, NAV2006

After clicking on IE desk top icon or any of my IE icons to connect to
internet the browser opens and i get page can not be displayed.

I am able to send and receive email with no problems.

If i go to control panel/microsoft update (under see all so) I get to update
page and I am able to run updates.

I can not surf the web at all...all I get is web page can not be displayed.

Please help
 
Ive got the same exact problem. It just happened in the last day or
two. Is it the newest update patch? Help!!
 
Hi,
Turn on the Windows Firewall (from Control Panel or Security Center) and
disable Norton and other third-party security, privacy, ad-blocking
programs, firewalls, toolbars, etc. to see if one of them is causing this.

Then, clear the IE cache. IE> Tools> Internet Options> General> Delete
files (and delete offline content when that dialog pops up) It's often
recommended that the TIF folder be kept at about 50 MB (Settings.)

Try opening a Cmd window (Start> Run> CMD) enter
ipconfig /flushdns
then clear the Temporary Internet Files and restart.

Hope this helps,
Don
[MS MVP- IE]
 
Thanks for the effort, but no dice... I even tried doing a repair
install of xp. What are the chances of it having something to do with
the latest update. It worked fine, then yesterday I was notified and
downloaded the lasted patch (for something to do with graphics
security, i don't quite remember). It seems like, since then, it just
doesn't work.

What can I do?

-Josh
 
Well that darn NAV did it again, some how NIS was blocking IE from the
internet... all is fixed now.

After disabling norton internet securty I still could not connect.. BUT
after looking at the firewall settings i found that NIS was set to BLOCK IE..
Go figure....

Don Varnau said:
Hi,
Turn on the Windows Firewall (from Control Panel or Security Center) and
disable Norton and other third-party security, privacy, ad-blocking
programs, firewalls, toolbars, etc. to see if one of them is causing this.

Then, clear the IE cache. IE> Tools> Internet Options> General> Delete
files (and delete offline content when that dialog pops up) It's often
recommended that the TIF folder be kept at about 50 MB (Settings.)

Try opening a Cmd window (Start> Run> CMD) enter
ipconfig /flushdns
then clear the Temporary Internet Files and restart.

Hope this helps,
Don
[MS MVP- IE]


player said:
windows XP/SP2 all updates,NO SYPWARE OR MAILWARE, DSL connection, NAV2006

After clicking on IE desk top icon or any of my IE icons to connect to
internet the browser opens and i get page can not be displayed.

I am able to send and receive email with no problems.

If i go to control panel/microsoft update (under see all so) I get to update
page and I am able to run updates.

I can not surf the web at all...all I get is web page can not be displayed.

Please help
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I have the same problem. I can browse the Internet, in Opera and the
Windows Explorer, but not MSIE.

Opera works fine. Pings and DNS are OK. No spyware, etc. All updates done.
This is Windows XP Pro on a new Gateway laptop (less than a week old).

I've spent hours trying pretty much all the ideas I came across on the web
except re-installing MSIE. Since I was having the problem on my home
network, I tried creating a dialup connectoid and OE and Opera work fine on
dialup, too, but MSIE is still timing out.

I tried going through the control panel, and that does work, but I suspect
that it is using a Windows Explorer (not MSIE) process, since the Google
toolbar and other MSIE add-ons are missing on that update window.
Interestingly, I am able to browse away from the Update site in that same
(Exporer?) window, but still new MSIE windows time out. (And, yes, I have
tried disabling all MSIE add-ons, resetting all the various items under
Internet Options).

MSIE does not appear in 'Change or Remove Programs', but can be found in
'Add/Remove Windows Components'. I find no 'Repair' option. I saw a
reference to running 'rundll32 setupwbv.dll,IE6Maintenance' on one site, but
the command fails on this machine with a 'not found' error.

allen

----- Original Message -----
From: "player" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups: microsoft.public.windows.inetexplorer.ie6.browser
Sent: Friday, January 06, 2006 4:26 PM
Subject: IE6 wont connect unless I go through control panel/microsoft up
 
Further to the above, MSN Messenger connects, but the tabs don't work. I
get a 'not available' message. I also tried installing MSN itself, hoping
it might straighten out MSIE, but it could not connect. Oh, and I also
installed Beta 7 (Using Opera). No luck. Beta 7 can't get through either.
OE works fine.

allen
 
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