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No connection to Internet
Name: grey Date: May 13, 2009 at 15:57:48 Pacific OS: Microsoft Windows XP Professional CPU/Ram: 1.6GHz 1gb Product: Acer / Aspire 5000 amd turion 64 Subcategory: Web Browsing
Comment:
This laptop gets the Internet via Router. Sometimes it fails to connect to the Internet although the Router signal is "Very Good". Everything else functions ok but the e-mail is not working as well. Today, the connection to the Internet is solid down. I reset Modem (Cable) and Router. I repaired the IP address. We use IE7 (replaced with IE8). Windows XP with SP3. What do you recommend?
Firewall Comodo Pro, BitDefender, Scans with , SpyBot AdAware
More on this problem: E-mail, works without problem. Mail is handle by Comcast. I connected the laptop directly to the router bypassing the wireless process. No change to the problem. I used restore to a week ago, no change. I now suspect IE8. Dumb here I do not have a second browser like Firefox on the laptop. I would like to step back to IE7 but since I cannot download anything, I am stuck... I think. Any recommendations?
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Response Number 4
Name: deviant719 Date: May 15, 2009 at 13:17:36 Pacific
Reply:
Go to Run and type in cmd...in the command prompt, type ipconfig /release and press Enter. At the next line, ipconfig /renew
Yesterday I read about how to simply step back from IE8 to IE7. I followed it by using the Remove Programs from the Control Panel. It automatically replaced IE8 with IE7 and to my amazement, the browser worked with all the websites I tried to open. This morning, my wife powered up the laptop and IE7 started and to her delight, the websites opened without a hitch. About 1 hour later, despite the system still using IE7, the problem returned. No websites would open. I checked the wireless connection and it is still Very Good connection. At this point, no firewall, no anti-virus running. Restarted twice and still no solution. Any ideas?
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