Vista - Can connect internet only in Mozilla and IE.

Hello,

I have a strange problem.I can am getting internet only in Mozilla and IE.When I try to connect using other browsers I get a network error.I cant connect to the internet through other softwares like Download Managers,Media Players,etc.Any soloutions for this problem,please let me know.

OS-Windows Vista Home Premium x64
Hardware-HP Pavillion tx2500

Thanks

Hmm... sounds like a firewall issue... Do you have any software firewalls or any router with a build-in firewall?

Hi,

I just use the basic firewall from vista,though its turned off I am unable to access the internet.I am using a NetGear Router and I dont think it has any inbuilt firewall.

I am getting a very similar issue where windows sidebar and outlook are incapable of communicating via any network device except for the GSM (cellular) modem in the PCMCIA slot. It has nothing to do with the routing table or the firewall. There seems to be a layer of Vista that filters TCP at a device dependent level. In twenty (twenty-five?) years of computing and networking, I have to admit I am baffeled. I tried uninstalling all the network devices, but there are two devices (Device Manager) called "Net Firewall Miniport Interface" that (from google'ing) seem to be associated with the AT&T GSM software. They both appear to be corrupted with bad configuration data in the registry, and they refuse to uninstall.

So, this does not fix your problem, I am sure, but check your device manager and see if you have a "bad" interface. It may start to lead you in the correct direction. To the rest of the crowd, anyone got a good way to blow away a device that refuses to uninstall??

did you check the proxy settings from the other Browsers?

FIXED! You know, I never use IE so I hadn't noticed that a Siebel install had completely messed up the proxy settings. It added the GSM modem as the sole device. Ugh! Of course I keep forgetting that windows "logic" is to communicate through the IE proxy.