Vista - Re: I.E. will not work or open any pages

(cross-post added to Vista Networking)
"bandmama" <bandmama@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:5CDF3E43-F188-4D65-8899-F1312D7D178F@microsoft.com...
> my I.E. will not open any pages. i get messages saying " cannot display the
> web page " and " is not set up to establish a connection on port world wide
> web service (http) with this computer." "verify the current proxy server
> configuration." i have I.E. 7 and am using windows vista. would this problem
> also cause my AIM messenger to stop working? any suggestions other than
> completely uninstalling I.E. and reinstalling it?


You can't uninstall IE in Vista. IE7 is integrated in the OS in the same way
that IE6 is in XP.

My guess is that your DNS isn't working correctly.
To test your DNS (in XP at least) you can use nslookup
in a cmd window. Tell us what happens when you try that.


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