Thanks for the suggestions but I actually found the cause of my problem.
After I installed some IM applications I realized my network connection was
bouncing. I downloaded an older driver for my onboard LAN connection (Asus
motherboard), replacing the built-in Vista driver and everything magically
started working. No more browser issues, no more bouncing network
connections. I put my browser back to default settings, turning all the
security features back on and everything is working great.
"rapierau" wrote:
>
> Very common problem - try the following solutions
>
> Turn off TLS encryption in the Internet Options advanced tab and turn
> on SSL 2.0. This will fix some secure pages.
>
>
> The major fix is this and I quote...
>
> It appears that some sites cannot be opened with Vista (beta 2) because
> the webservers don't respond well to the tcp autotuning feature that is
> enabled by default. I managed to access the sites by turning off this
> network auto tuning with the command:
>
> netsh int tcp set global autotuninglevel=disabled
>
> Since this is a network setting, it affects all browsers. It's not a
> IE7 issue.
>
> unquote
>
> Best of Luck
>
>
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