Windows Vista IE7 & Firefox Stopped working as if no Internet Connection

[VistaHopeless]

*IE7 & Firefox Stopped working as if no Internet Connection*
The Power people came to our door and said they would be turning off
the power for 2 hours. I called up to my wife and said do a shutdown on
your laptop (Toshiba) and I shut mine down (HP). After the new polls
were installed, the power came back on, I was out fishing, came home,
turned on my computer, all was fine, went to browse and it (Firefox
latest 3xxx). The netwok is fine, AIM loads, my weatherbugs load and get
this, EVEN AOL software/browser and what stumps me most, AOL Desktop,
which I thought was really even a more generic IE Browser works. FF and
IE7 acts as if their is no internet connection.

Wife's was working fine. Reset Sat Modem, Reset Netgear Router. Tried
everything I know, crapped out. RESET ROUTER to generic unsecure mode,
no different. Uninstallted Mcaffe, nothing, Turned off Windows Firewall,
NOTHING. Both browers act like no internet connection (Even went Cat5
hard wire, no change) I am a hardware guy, certainly not a software guy
for 25 years. This one has me stumped. As I said AOL works with its
browser, desktop works, all the stuff like AIM (standalone) works,
Sidebar internet items work, connection is right, no browers.

Any Ideas, wrong forum? Something makes me believe hardware, so I
backed it all up and did a simple restore that does not FORMAT or remove
files, nothing, went back to SEP 12th Recovery, no help.I am stumped??

Thanks


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VistaHopeless

 

[Flavius]

Re: IE7 & Firefox Stopped working as if no Internet Connection


Run Command Prompt (cmd.exe) as a administrator and insert:

*netsh winsock reset *+restart

if no help you again run cmd.exe with administrative previlliges and
insert:

*netsh int ip reset C:\resetlog.txt *+restart


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Flavius

 

[VistaHopeless]

Re: IE7 & Firefox Stopped working as if no Internet Connection


Thank you Flavius. I did both, in the order you gave me, it did things,
but did not bring back the browsers. Will keep working on it.


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VistaHopeless

 

[Flavius]

Re: IE7 & Firefox Stopped working as if no Internet Connection


Try to reset Internet Explorer settings +restart
http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/114310-internet-explorer-reset.html


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Flavius

 

[VistaHopeless]

Re: IE7 & Firefox Stopped working as if no Internet Connection


Oh lord, I tried all of that normal stuff before I posted. I worked on
it for a week, and thank you for your time and support. I just did a
backup and complete restore from scratch and it is working again. Last
resort, but I was at whit's end, I will never know now what this was, I
still think it is hardware related, but what else does a hardware guy
believe anyway

::_-*It_is_resolved_now*-_::. due to complete restore as it came out of
the box.


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VistaHopeless