John Kotuby

Well I found a fix for IE7 and Microsoft Mail not being able to connect to
the Internet in Windows Vista Ultimate.
It's called Mozilla.
I installed Mozilla Thunderbird and now along with Firefox I have an email
client and browser that both work just fine on Vista even though IE7 and
Microsoft Mail ar both broken.

I have removed any 3rd party firewalls and did a complete scan with Norton
AV 2007 which also detects spyware and browser hijackers.

I hear number of people complaining about the same or similar problems with
the Microsoft products on Vista.
I wish that MS wasn't in such a rush to put out a new OS just to make more
revenue.

"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...
>
>