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Hey everyone, this is a weird question. I cant go to www.yahoo.com. At all. All it keeps saying is "its taking too long to respond". I cant even get it on useless IE. I know I didn't block the page, I already checked that. The only way to go to my email is LUCKILY I bookmarked the page to sign into the mailbox and that still works. But heres the catch 22, only THAT bookmark works. Meaning, I also have the Yahoo Mail Notifier extension (Firefox obviously) And you are suppose to just double click it and it goes right to the email box. Well it also says "its taking too long to respond". I also tried another different email notifier that does the same thing, and I STILL got the same "taking too long to respond." And heres another thing, my brothers computer gets yahoo, my moms computer gets yahoo. My brother and I's computers are on the wireless network, and both our connections are fine, I've checked mine. So what could it possibly be? Is there another blocking thing somehow turned on or something??
"I cant even get it on useless IE."
"(Firefox obviously)"
I use both IE7 and Firefox 2.0, IE is my choice because you don't have to keep adding extensions and has much better features IMO than Firefox.
You didn't say which version of IE and also what type of connection you have.http://forums.techguy.org/windows-n...
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Ok, I have a cable connection (roadrunner), I have xp pro service pack 2, all updates, meaning IE 7 and Firefox 2.0.06(or whatever the latest version is) (I prefer Firefox over IE) And I CAN go on Yahoo links, lets say I go to a news website and they have a link to a news report thats on Yahoo, I can get on that no problem, its just the main page and my email notifier thingy.
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Run Adaware 2007 and Spybot search & destroy 1.4. Find them both here.
http://www.pcworld.com/downloads/
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Guys, look, I'm not your average computing myspace loser. I'm a geek/nerd, whatever you prefer. I am uber paraniod about crap on my computer, and I run CCleaner, Spybot, Ad-Aware, AVG, AVG Anti-Spyware, AVG Anti-Rootkit, disk cleanup, defrag, and freakin' Windows Defender (never finds anything) religiously everyday, even several times a day. (I defrag and disk clean up once a week, all the other stuff I do 2-3 times a day) and EVERYTHING I HAVE IS UP TO DATE 100%. Ok? Now can someone have ANY IDEA why I cant go to the main yahoo page or re-direct through my email notifier EVEN THOUGH I CAN GO TO EVERY OTHER YAHOO PAGE.
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Yet YOU still have the problem. You could try listing your yahoo mail address url as a trusted site under tools>internet options> security in IE.
Something you are running 2 or 3 times a day is dumping the mail link.
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another issue may be that you have too many yahoo pages in your prefetch folder. This will also cause time outs. The programs you listed do not clean the prefetch folder so you might need to clean it manually.
c\windows\prefetch
you can safely delete everything that is in the folder...If a file refuses to delete as in being used,etc,etc...delete the files in safe mode and you should be fine.In The Matters Of Style,
swim with the current;
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"People demand freedom of speech to make up for the
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Thank you everyone who replied, sorry I got a little upset but that comment about running Ad-Aware and Spybot erked me the wrong way. I'll try that prefetch thing and if it doesnt work I'll get back to you
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ok, I checked the prefetch, and cleared it, but before I did I looked, there was no yahoo pages in the folder at all, but I cleared it anyway, and I'm still getting the same problem.
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You never answered if you tried the 2 suggestions I gave....they do pertain to your problem
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To XpUser4Real, the first forum link didn't have any answers, it was just some guy with the same problem as me but no one really fixed his problem, and the 2nd one I tried and it gave me like time information but I dont know what to do with it so its like pointless/useless.
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If you are unable to navigate to yahoo.com but can load pretty much any other website regardless of what browser you are using; you might want to run the tracert command & paste the log result to further investigate where the obstacle is?
BTW, when & how did this all start?
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