Nemephosis
New Member
I have a fairly curious problem, and I'm not sure there's an answer for it.
I'm running Windows Vista Home Basic, and randomly my internet browsers just totally stop trying to connect and just spit out error messages, but everything else still works (usually). MSN, Steam, my antivirus updates on time, everything that isn't HTTP pretty much. The internet browsers will last anywhere from 5 minutes to 24 hours before keeling over.
I've done a pretty thorough Google search on this and I'm at least not alone, but in another sense I am...
A lot of people have said "oh I disabled/uninstalled ZoneAlarm or Bitdefender or so and so a program and it worked" but I don't run those. Never have had ZA or anything on my computer.
The only program I have in common with the most common ones is Spybot S&D, and I disabled that on startup and sure enough, didn't work.
I do not have any Vista service packs, I don't think. Nothing explicitly called that anyway. I have a bunch of updates that I installed when I got the computer, so I can't uninstall SP1 to fix it since I don't think I even have it.
Is it a process running that can cause this?
I'll bet I am in this for the long haul, aren't I...
edit: I should clarify this started a week or so ago. Nothing changed in that time. It was working fine, and then it wasn't.
I'm running Windows Vista Home Basic, and randomly my internet browsers just totally stop trying to connect and just spit out error messages, but everything else still works (usually). MSN, Steam, my antivirus updates on time, everything that isn't HTTP pretty much. The internet browsers will last anywhere from 5 minutes to 24 hours before keeling over.
I've done a pretty thorough Google search on this and I'm at least not alone, but in another sense I am...
A lot of people have said "oh I disabled/uninstalled ZoneAlarm or Bitdefender or so and so a program and it worked" but I don't run those. Never have had ZA or anything on my computer.
The only program I have in common with the most common ones is Spybot S&D, and I disabled that on startup and sure enough, didn't work.
I do not have any Vista service packs, I don't think. Nothing explicitly called that anyway. I have a bunch of updates that I installed when I got the computer, so I can't uninstall SP1 to fix it since I don't think I even have it.
Is it a process running that can cause this?
I'll bet I am in this for the long haul, aren't I...
edit: I should clarify this started a week or so ago. Nothing changed in that time. It was working fine, and then it wasn't.