Vista Tutorial - IE7 & Firefox Stopped working as if no Internet Connection

The Power people came to our door and said they would be turning off the power for 2 hours. I called up to my wife and said do a shutdown on your laptop (Toshiba) and I shut mine down (HP). After the new polls were installed, the power came back on, I was out fishing, came home, turned on my computer, all was fine, went to browse and it (Firefox latest 3xxx). The netwok is fine, AIM loads, my weatherbugs load and get this, EVEN AOL software/browser and what stumps me most, AOL Desktop, which I thought was really even a more generic IE Browser works. FF and IE7 acts as if their is no internet connection.

Wife's was working fine. Reset Sat Modem, Reset Netgear Router. Tried everything I know, crapped out. RESET ROUTER to generic unsecure mode, no different. Uninstallted Mcaffe, nothing, Turned off Windows Firewall, NOTHING. Both browers act like no internet connection (Even went Cat5 hard wire, no change) I am a hardware guy, certainly not a software guy for 25 years. This one has me stumped. As I said AOL works with its browser, desktop works, all the stuff like AIM (standalone) works, Sidebar internet items work, connection is right, no browers.

Any Ideas, wrong forum? Something makes me believe hardware, so I backed it all up and did a simple restore that does not FORMAT or remove files, nothing, went back to SEP 12th Recovery, no help.I am stumped??

Thanks

Scott

I have the same problem since almost 2 weeks... im really tired of this.
I can still use messenger, counter-strike source, limewire, etc.
But not firefox and internet explorer :-( help guys !

Max

Check this thread and see if any of it helps you. It did not me, but I just got to tired of it, I totally did a full recovery. IF YOU do get a fix before you resort to that, please let me know, something tells me this will not be the last time I run into this.

Scott

IE7 & Firefox Stopped working as if no Internet Connection

I think i'm gonna do the same than you vistahopeless :-P the fix didnt worked for me, i cant run cmd.exe in administrator mode.. ill try to run cmd.exe in administrator mode with a little help from the internet soon.

thx for your answer

Max

Now that you ran cmd.exe from the run or search menu, you will now find it in your windows start. where you see it in the list, right click on it, that allows you to try admin mode, unless of course you do not have admin access, you should if it is your laptop/desktop and try it again.

Hope you do not need to do it, but use the backup in the restore, which I did not, I just copied the entire drive to an external 1TB drive I got at newegg last month for like 159 bucks.

Good Luck Bro. I really need to upgrade to Ultimate, as I am wasting a gig of memory on this 32bit platform

thx vistahopeless, and i tried again and it says :

to netsh winsock reset
it says : the operation asked needs an elevation ( i got french vista, so i translate )

to netsh int ip reset C:\resetlog.txt
it says : failure of the reinitialisation of the request from echo
the operation asked needs an elevation
failure of the reinitialisation of general
the operation asked needs an elevation
failure of the reinitialisation of the request from interface
the operation asked needs an elevation
there is no parameters specified by the user to reinitialise


so.. i'm still stuck :-(

it's smell recovery :-P

hey i found that i can use the browser in limewire.... i dunno if this means something... but anyway that's it

Yes, that ELEVATION means you need to be in admin mode. As I was saying, and I am sorry, my French Class in high school was only because the pretty girls took french

Click on your Start button at the bottom left of your screen. When you do that, you will not see your recent usage of the cmd.exe. RIGHT CLICK your mouse on that and you will see it allows you to select to run it as Administrator. do it that way. then cut and paste in Flavious Instructions. Not sure it will help you, but certainly better than using the restore if you do not need too. You sound a bit different than I, the only Browser I did not try and load was apple's safari, but IE, FF even Flock which I found as an add here did not work. What blew my mind was not only did AOL Paid software work, but their desktop, that anyone can download worked. I thought it stole all its real needs like most do off the kernel/files from IE. All I have learned in the last week is this is a great forum, I am a software idiot (which I already knew) and I never have enough good buds to smoke to not give a crap about Vista. I like so many things in Vista and maybe when I am running a full 64 bit version that extra 4th gig of memory will make my machine operate faster, but I am almost sorry I did not stay with XP, all those bugs I had figured out over the years

ahh ok! i went in the proprieties of cmd.exe and i found a '' run as an administrator '' checkbox. But this way it wasnt working. But in the context menu the '' run as an administrator '' works well. The cmd says that i need to reboot to finalise this action. So i'll see when i reboot.

thx

Max

Well. News from me!

The netsh winsock reset and netsh int ip reset C:\resetlog.txt

didnt make something.

I decided to try something else. I downloaded Opera, an other browser but didnt installed it.

Started mozilla firefox, surfed for like 10 min, then it crashed. So i started internet explorer, 5 min after that, it crashed too.

So i installed opera. Surprise, opera AND firefox works for another 10 mins( didnt tried explorer ). but now they are ALL down. Only the browser in limewire works ALL THE TIME. I'm gonna try to uninstall firefox and opera then reinstall them ( after they are all crashed then post the results here. Maybe i will try to uninstall explorer too to clear everything. ( I dont wanna format my PC yet. )

If anyone can help me out.....

Thx

Max