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Robert A. Macy
Guest
Apologies ahead of time, but I need help on what should be a simple
problem.
I have four machines: 2 Win98 and 2 WinXP. All works to connect to my
ISP, but the IE6 on one of the WinXP's, but then suddenly worked for
one session, then quit again.
It dials, makes connection, confirms me to my ISP, announces that the
connection is made with a little balloon, but then stops and will not
download the welcome page? The IE6 promptly sequences through
everything until it's time to get the page, then...nothing, no data
transfer, just an hour glass. I can't even activate the View Source.
Have to stop IE, but then the 'can't show this page' screen is the
same as view source.
IE6 just stops when it comes time to get the page. No data transfer,
nothing. Doesn't matter if it's my ISP, google, or any page.
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Gary Terhune suggested:
***Ideas only. Test each thoroughly before continuing to the next:
1. In Internet Options, Advanced tab, click the Restore Defaults
button.
Then uncheck JUST that one item about checking for Updates. You can
fiddle
with the rest later. Do the same for your Internet Zone and Restricted
Zone.
Reset to defaults.
2. In a CMD window, while connected, run the following:
ipconfig /flushdns
3. Set up a Clean Boot by running MSCONFIG, choosing Selective
Startup, then
uncheck the Load Startup Items, then go to the Services tab, put a
check in
"Hide all Microsoft Services", then click Disable All. Click OK,
reboot when
prompted, check to make sure that your antivirus didn't automatically
restart itself (Avast will do that), then test at Microsoft.com. If
you're
sure it's working OK, now, then run MSINFO32, look under Software,
then
Startup Programs, click anywhere in the right-hand pane, press Ctrl-A,
then
Ctrl-C, then use Ctrl-V to Paste the info into a reply. Stop any
further
testing of suggestions and reestablish a Normal boot in MSCONFIG.
4. Not sure about this one, because I've never used a modem with XP.
In the
Modem's properties, I would hope that there is somewhere to manually
enter
DNS settings. Probably in the modem's Properties, then TCP/IP
protocol's
Properties. Try using OpenDNS.com for both Primary and Secondary DNS
servers.
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I tried the first two:
> ***Ideas only. Test each thoroughly before continuing to the next:
> 1. In Internet Options, Advanced tab, click the Restore Defaults button.
> Then uncheck JUST that one item about checking for Updates. You can fiddle
> with the rest later. Do the same for your Internet Zone and Restricted Zone.
> Reset to defaults.
Did this, reset all items [I think] and unchecked Automatic Update.
Plus found that there are now NO Add-ons, none at all. But, IE6 still
didn't work.
> 2. In a CMD window, while connected, run the following:
> ipconfig /flushdns
WOW! this did NOT do anything!
I dialed up, got connected and then opened a command window typed the
line and cr...nothing, just sat there for minutes!
Is that right? Should it be that slow? Hitting cr again did nothing,
had to close window. At first thought 'hour-glass' and IE6 waiting
was the problem, so stopped IE6, not close, [while connected] and
tried again. Still /flushdns did nothing? Had to close again.
As a test, opened cmd window and typed ipconfig and got a litany of
stuff about my ISP.
IS it significant that /flushdns did nothing?
Either way, IE6 still does not open a page at any website.
I'll go do point 3 later
> Gary Terhune also asked:
> What ISP do you use? Do you set up your DUN connection manually or did you
> install some program from the ISP to do it? Is it even using Windows DUN, or
> is it using its own dialer?
I use http://www.california.com I think I set up manually.
I ignored my ISP's list of things to do, because many times [more than
20 times of clean installs] I successfully have gotten IE6 on Win98
and the other WinXP running by simply connecting to ISP, just manually
set up the phone number and let it go, worked fine.
Robert
problem.
I have four machines: 2 Win98 and 2 WinXP. All works to connect to my
ISP, but the IE6 on one of the WinXP's, but then suddenly worked for
one session, then quit again.
It dials, makes connection, confirms me to my ISP, announces that the
connection is made with a little balloon, but then stops and will not
download the welcome page? The IE6 promptly sequences through
everything until it's time to get the page, then...nothing, no data
transfer, just an hour glass. I can't even activate the View Source.
Have to stop IE, but then the 'can't show this page' screen is the
same as view source.
IE6 just stops when it comes time to get the page. No data transfer,
nothing. Doesn't matter if it's my ISP, google, or any page.
=-=-=
Gary Terhune suggested:
***Ideas only. Test each thoroughly before continuing to the next:
1. In Internet Options, Advanced tab, click the Restore Defaults
button.
Then uncheck JUST that one item about checking for Updates. You can
fiddle
with the rest later. Do the same for your Internet Zone and Restricted
Zone.
Reset to defaults.
2. In a CMD window, while connected, run the following:
ipconfig /flushdns
3. Set up a Clean Boot by running MSCONFIG, choosing Selective
Startup, then
uncheck the Load Startup Items, then go to the Services tab, put a
check in
"Hide all Microsoft Services", then click Disable All. Click OK,
reboot when
prompted, check to make sure that your antivirus didn't automatically
restart itself (Avast will do that), then test at Microsoft.com. If
you're
sure it's working OK, now, then run MSINFO32, look under Software,
then
Startup Programs, click anywhere in the right-hand pane, press Ctrl-A,
then
Ctrl-C, then use Ctrl-V to Paste the info into a reply. Stop any
further
testing of suggestions and reestablish a Normal boot in MSCONFIG.
4. Not sure about this one, because I've never used a modem with XP.
In the
Modem's properties, I would hope that there is somewhere to manually
enter
DNS settings. Probably in the modem's Properties, then TCP/IP
protocol's
Properties. Try using OpenDNS.com for both Primary and Secondary DNS
servers.
=-=-=
I tried the first two:
> ***Ideas only. Test each thoroughly before continuing to the next:
> 1. In Internet Options, Advanced tab, click the Restore Defaults button.
> Then uncheck JUST that one item about checking for Updates. You can fiddle
> with the rest later. Do the same for your Internet Zone and Restricted Zone.
> Reset to defaults.
Did this, reset all items [I think] and unchecked Automatic Update.
Plus found that there are now NO Add-ons, none at all. But, IE6 still
didn't work.
> 2. In a CMD window, while connected, run the following:
> ipconfig /flushdns
WOW! this did NOT do anything!
I dialed up, got connected and then opened a command window typed the
line and cr...nothing, just sat there for minutes!
Is that right? Should it be that slow? Hitting cr again did nothing,
had to close window. At first thought 'hour-glass' and IE6 waiting
was the problem, so stopped IE6, not close, [while connected] and
tried again. Still /flushdns did nothing? Had to close again.
As a test, opened cmd window and typed ipconfig and got a litany of
stuff about my ISP.
IS it significant that /flushdns did nothing?
Either way, IE6 still does not open a page at any website.
I'll go do point 3 later
> Gary Terhune also asked:
> What ISP do you use? Do you set up your DUN connection manually or did you
> install some program from the ISP to do it? Is it even using Windows DUN, or
> is it using its own dialer?
I use http://www.california.com I think I set up manually.
I ignored my ISP's list of things to do, because many times [more than
20 times of clean installs] I successfully have gotten IE6 on Win98
and the other WinXP running by simply connecting to ISP, just manually
set up the phone number and let it go, worked fine.
Robert