I don't know if it will help, but perhaps going to your wireless (router)
setup page and checking all the settings? I had a friend with a linksys
router that was having connection issues (though she has XP and did not have
sidebar gadgets still reporting she was online) and she had to clone her MAC
address a couple (yes, a couple) of times and then her connection through IE
was fixed.
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"rackcomputeridiot" <u43384@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:83a9ed93b673b@xxxxxx
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> Yes the automatic detect box is checked and no there is nothing in the
> proxy
> server
>
> Victek wrote: Quote:
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>>> I am having problems connecting to internet explorer on my laptop.
>>> Whenever
>>[quoted text clipped - 12 lines] Quote:
>>> possible, for as my user name implies, I am a computer idiot.
>>> Thanks
>>
>>Look in "Control Panel/Internet Options/connections/Lan settings". Is it
>>set to automatically detect settings? Is anything entered for the Proxy
>>server and is it checked? >