Vista stops webpages from working

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Dennis Longnecker

After upgrading my WIndows XP SP 2 workstation to VIsta Beta 2, I am finding
that some webpages are not displaying correctly. For example, if I enter
the URL

http://www.gyro4.org

The page will not display to completeless. There is a graphic in the upper
right that will not display no matter what I do. On my home network I also
have a Windows XP laptop and it displays the page just fine. I also have a
Mac with Safari, and it displays the page fine. And, of course, before the
upgrade the workstation displayed the page just fine.

I tried turning off WIndows Defender and various other security settings,
but it just won't display correctly. And thoughts on what might be
happenning?
 
After upgrading my WIndows XP SP 2 workstation to VIsta Beta 2,
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I don't have an answer to your question. But I do
have some questions for you.

You *upgraded* and didn't put Vista on its own
partition or another internal hard drive?

You use this computer as your work computer?

This is not a "test" computer? You know, one
that you don't readily need to depend on?

You installed a beta OS on an important/production
machine? Overwriting a perfectly working WinXP?

Are you nuts?


-Michael
 
The web pages themselves are working just fine. It's your computer that
isn't. Try clearing out the DNS cache and your browser(s) history,
resetting your modem/router, that sort of thing. It could be that because
you upgraded, there is some old data in the pipe clogging things up.

Also, try searching the forum, as this exact issue has been discussed more
than thrice.

And Michael... Geez! They call me caustic!
 
Uncheck "automatically detect settings" in tools/internet
options/connections/lan settings ... cleared up the problem for me. YMMV.
 
Mark D. VandenBerg said:
The web pages themselves are working just fine. It's your computer that isn't. Try clearing
out the DNS cache and your browser(s) history, resetting your modem/router, that sort of
thing. It could be that because you upgraded, there is some old data in the pipe clogging
things up.

Also, try searching the forum, as this exact issue has been discussed more than thrice.
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And Michael... Geez! They call me caustic!
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Dennis Longnecker said:
After upgrading my WIndows XP SP 2 workstation to VIsta Beta 2
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"workstation" (?!)

"Only a complete moron would rely on a Beta
OS for a production machine. If she goes down, so what?"
- Mark D. Vandenberg (words to live/test by)

;-)

-Michael
 
Perhaps I choose the wrong words...I should have used PC instead of
workstation?

I've cleaned the cache, resetted DNS entries, have turned off the automatic
detect, rebooted my belkin router, etc. I even tried Firefox on this Vista
upgraded PC/computer/workstation and it has the same problem of not
displaying the pages completely. It gets to the site, but does not complete
the loading. Other computers on my home network, which use the same belkin
router, display the page correctly. I even installed IE 7 on one of my XP
home computers and it displays it correctly. For some reason, this vista
PC/computer/workstation does not want to display the jpg file. I thought
maybe it had to do with a space in the file name, but I took that out and it
still didn't work.

In tools..internet options...advanced...there is an option to reset internet
option settings. That doesn't even help. I run as Administrator, that
doesn't help. I turn off all the non-microsoft services at boot time, that
doesn't help.
 
Dennis,

I can not get the page to fully display either. IE, Firefox, and Opera
do not render the whole page for me.

I don't know.

-Michael
 
I guess it's possible that it has something to do with the web-server
recognizing a browser operating under Vista???
 
Well, If that's actually correct, call me a blind squirrel happy to have
found an acorn...

I have no clue if it is the problem, but if it is, then it is going to have
to be up to the webmasters to update their code, and fortunately for you,
there are other machines for you to use to access the sites. Pain in the
hynie, but, sometimes, life happens. You may want to do some more research,
and if this is actually the issue, contact the webmaster and tell him that
the ninjas and the pirates both have agreed: his code is not strong.
 
Hi,

try opening an elivated command prompt (right-click "Command Prompt", and
select "Run as administrator") and then execute the following command:
"netsh int tcp set global autotuninglevel=disabled"

Cheers,
Mark Anthony Spiteri
(508674)
 
Dennis Longnecker said:
Holly Cow...that made it work. What does that mean?
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I googled it. Didn't find much information.

http://www.todotnet.com/

Update:

Wow, this is weird. It turns out the www.msteched.com site is not down at all. It's just that I
cannot access the site under Windows Vista (beta 2). When I open the site from my laptop, still
running XP, but with IE7 (beta 2) there's no problem. Can anyone confirm this?

Update 2:

It appears that some sites cannot be opened with Vista (beta 2) because the webservers don't
respond well to the tcp autotuning feature that is enabled by default. I managed to access the
sites by turning off this network auto tuning with the command:

netsh int tcp set global autotuninglevel=disabled

Since this is a network setting, it affects all browsers. It's not a IE7 issue.
 
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