John Kotuby

Thanks Richard..

That might be the problem. I had some trouble installing Panda IS 2007 then
uninstalled it. Then I went to the 2007 version of Norton AV but had
problems there also.

Both of those products claim to be Vista compatible, but apparently not.

I still can't figure out why Firefox works just fine and Microsoft's own
products are having issues.

Oh well...

"Richard Urban" <richardurbanREMOVETHIS@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> 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)
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> "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...
>>
>>
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