Richard Urban

Did you install a 3rd party firewall? My son just had that problem and I
found that somehow, I.E. was blocked by the firewall. A five second fix was
all it took.

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Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
(For email, remove the obvious from my address)



"John Kotuby" <JohnKotuby@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Hi all,
>
> As a software developer I have generally been disappointed in Vista, as it
> had very poor support for Visual Studio and SQl Server. Now I am having
> another problem with it, on a new Dell Dimension.
>
> I can use FireFox on that machine for web surfing with no problem.
>
> However, IE7, Outlook 2007 and MS Mail have stopped working with the
> internet... cannot make any connections with websites, newsgroups or mail
> servers.
>
> When I run the network diagnostic from IE (after it says "Cannot
> connect...") it reports that there are no problems found!
>
> I have done a bunch of searching for answers and have found none that fix
> the problem.
>
> Any help will be appreciated.
>
> BTW I am the IT Manager at a small company and have worked with computers
> and PCs for 16 years, including DOS based machines and IBM mainframes. I
> have not ever encountered such problems as I am seeing since I upgraded my
> PC at home to a Vista Ultimate model.
>
> I refuse to upgrade any of our 30 PCs at the office to Vista. I will stay
> with XP for at least another year or 2. I don't really see any advantage
> to Vista... especially from a Software Developer's standpoint.
>
> Thanks to all in advance...
>
>