I hope this is the right spot to post this, I did see another post about IE, so here goes. For some reason I can longer get into certain webpages that I used to be able to get into. They take forever to load and eventually just time out. These pages include forums I belong to [one is a good techie forum like this one] and, just recently, my own website. I've had my website for over a year and never a problem, then one day I could no longer access it. I can get into it behind the scenes to update and change stuff, I just can't view it. I have checked and rechecked my internet options, reset, checkmarked, uncheckmarked, all to no avail. I have an excellant spy sweeper which detects nothing, my virus scan comes up empty. Nothing new had been downloaded at the time of my not being able to access my own site. I thought it was a conflict with what I'd done. I had added a whole lot of text so it would come up more often in a search engine. As soon as I'd saved the changes, the slow loading started and it would time out. I removed the text, but it didn't change anything. Sometimes I can actually get into the main page of the forums I belong to. One I have to log in, but then it refuses to load. Once in a blue moon I can actually read several pages before it konks out on me. Now, these forums are nice and I've made all sorts of friends in them, but it's my site that's really irking me. This is a working site and I NEED to get into it. A lot of people depend on it. As far as I know [and according to my counter when I DO manage to view it] other people are not having a problem viewing my site. I'd emailed the host of the one forum I belong to who told me I had to reformat my computer because I had virus'. As someone who surf's the internet a LOT and receives tons of emails per day, our virus scan is set to check every other day. It's also totally up-to-date. I'm totally at a loss as to why a select few websites are suddenly no longer working for me whereas they did for several months to a year of my belonging to them. I even tried turning off my firewall, disabling my Internet Security, disabling my Guardian, even turned off my popup killer. All still to no avail. I also tried going through Netscape, same problems. Can anyone please advise? If you need to know anything else, just ask. Thanks!! Teesa

Try this: Start/Run/Cmd:IPCONFIG /RELEASE - IPCONFIG /RENEW - and IPCONFIG /FLUSHDNS. Thanks to Glen.

I did try the 'release, renew, and all' and it didn't change anything. Is the 'flush' something completely different? Does it make a difference to reboot my computer after doing this? I didn't last time... Thanks, Teesa

The only other thing I can think of is to do a disk cleanup also go to start, run type %temp% Delete all the .tmp files you find Try to delete everything but it may not allow you Also try this command three times from a command prompt and trhen reboot NETSH INT IP RESET RESET I think it is something in the tools, options, advanced tab of IE and then one of the options under browsing Also have you all www.windowsupdate.com Services packs installed Hope this helps some

Thanks for replying. I do do a disk clean up on a regular basis. I don't keep too much on my computer [one little crash'll learn ya THAT lesson!! lol], mostly it's just games, themes, music and lots of pictures. All of which I keep the .zip files [or zip it myself] in a special folder all ready for back up. Once or twice a week I get rid of all .tmp files, I delete my caches and temporary internet files about every 15 or so minutes. I virus scan about every other day, I check for spies darn near every time I log off the net, I have a Windows washer that I use every day, plus one that came with my internet security [each one does stuff that the other doesn't, so I do both]. I defrag my computer after I've done major overhaul on my computer [like deleting large amounts of stuff or backing up large amounts of stuff]. I go through my regedit to make sure there's nothing left behind, but both Windows washers usually get it all. I uninstall through my Control Panel other than deleting as that'll get rid of files and folder's that get shared and thrown somewhere else. I also find it gets rid of more of the program than using its particular unintstall [some of them anyway]. I delete my Recent folder items all the time. How's that for thorough? lol Do I need to mention I'm a Virgo? lol As for the IP release, I've done that a couple of times now, to no avail. It's only 3 sites that I can't access [mine included]. I've done random searches [for cars, actor's/actresses, brocolli, chat's, whatever I think of at the time... lol] and clicked on random links and I can access everything else, just not those 3. I did a search for what should be and not be checked in the Advanced tab for my internet options and everything seems to be right. I just don't get it. To the best of my knowledge, I'm up-to-date on all security patches and whatnots, but will go to the site and check that one. Teesa

You could also try to reach the web addresses by ip go to command prompt type ping websitename from the reply you will get ip address type \\websitename into the address inweb browser

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