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corpse
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PostPosted: 02-18-2005 10:50 PM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


I can connect to the Internet and access just about any site, except for Hotmail. When I click the hotmail link and type in name and password, I get this page cannot be displayed.

Does this make sense to anyone.
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AmIdYfReAk
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PostPosted: 02-19-2005 10:36 AM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


try loggin it from msn's site.. then clicking on Hotmail...
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PostPosted: 02-19-2005 10:37 AM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


ohh, and if that dosent work, try clearing your temp internet files and cookies and trying again.

( Tools, internet options, delete files ( click on "Delete all offline content", then delete Coockies, and click ok )
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PostPosted: 02-19-2005 12:12 PM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


Tried that. Its a neighbors computer and it wont connect to Hotmail. Over and over, it just says that page cannot be displayed.

Connects to every other site, but that one.

I tried downloading IE and reinstalling, but it says it cannot install.
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AmIdYfReAk
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PostPosted: 02-19-2005 02:16 PM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


you want to expand on that? why does it say it cannot install?

tryed firefox? what windows?
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PostPosted: 02-19-2005 02:51 PM           Profile   Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


Has the hosts file in \Windows\system32\drivers\etc been modified at all? the only entry in that file (which can be opened with notepad) should be 127.0.0.1 localhost
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PostPosted: 02-20-2005 02:06 AM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


Firefox solved the problem, whatever it was.

Thanks for the help
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PostPosted: 02-20-2005 09:44 PM           Profile   Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


corpse wrote:
Firefox solved the problem, whatever it was.

Thanks for the help


Good to hear. Just to fix the issue in IE, have you tried resetting it to defaults? IE, Tools, Options, Programs tab, Reset Defaults.
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PostPosted: 02-21-2005 12:05 AM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


classic... :icon19:

dumping IE solves issue with microsofts web-mail service.
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PostPosted: 02-21-2005 01:50 PM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


Use Yahoo.
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PostPosted: 02-21-2005 02:19 PM           Profile   Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


Arkleseizure wrote:
Use Yahoo.


That was not a useful suggestion. Please keep to the topic.



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corpse
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PostPosted: 02-21-2005 06:58 PM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


Tormentius wrote:
corpse wrote:
Firefox solved the problem, whatever it was.

Thanks for the help


Good to hear. Just to fix the issue in IE, have you tried resetting it to defaults? IE, Tools, Options, Programs tab, Reset Defaults.


Yes, I did try all that stuff fist.
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PostPosted: 02-25-2005 06:53 AM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


corpse wrote:
Firefox solved the problem, whatever it was.

Thanks for the help


I'm glad i read youre post, i was having the same problem since one month...so its goodbye Internet Explorer...lol



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Tormentius
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PostPosted: 02-25-2005 11:08 AM           Profile   Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


Thats an interesting concept. Pretend the problem doesn't exist and switch software rather than figuring out what the user misconfigured.

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PostPosted: 02-25-2005 01:07 PM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


Because its automatically the user who screwed up when a MS product gets thrown to the side.

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4g3nt_Smith wrote:
Because its automatically the user who screwed up when a MS product gets thrown to the side.

:icon6:


I almost agree with Smith, the reason I use IE instead of FF is becuase FF does some strange things and forgets some formatting on a website, altho I did get Google to look identical, NewEgg still looks strange and has smaller font where bigger font used to reside on the page, especially bold parts and whatnot. Seeing as I have done 2 or 3 installs of FF and it still does that I don't see what user error it could be.

As for this case, when one or two people all of a sudden get a problem with IE and thousands do not all of a sudden get the same issue then it would seem to be user error or spyware or whatever else
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Kills On Site wrote:


As for this case, when one or two people all of a sudden get a problem with IE and thousands do not all of a sudden get the same issue then it would seem to be user error or spyware or whatever else


Precisely :icon14:.

Its most often a user problem because there are a huge amount of people who aren't experiencing this issue. If it was a fatal flaw in the software then it would be affecting a lot more people. That would point to it being a problem on the side of the workstation.




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PostPosted: 02-25-2005 09:28 PM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


Before i change to FF, i did try lots of thing...
And the problem seem to be more around here in montreal...
I tried to format and reinstall from scratch everything, but still have the same problem....

One last thing, now that i use FF...its funny, i dont get anymore spyware !!! well..... so little compare to IE ...



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PostPosted: 02-25-2005 09:34 PM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


Here, take a look---------
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1770010,00.asp



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PostPosted: 02-26-2005 01:10 AM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


Kills On Site wrote:
4g3nt_Smith wrote:
Because its automatically the user who screwed up when a MS product gets thrown to the side.

:icon6:


I almost agree with Smith, the reason I use IE instead of FF is becuase FF does some strange things and forgets some formatting on a website, altho I did get Google to look identical, NewEgg still looks strange and has smaller font where bigger font used to reside on the page, especially bold parts and whatnot. Seeing as I have done 2 or 3 installs of FF and it still does that I don't see what user error it could be.

As for this case, when one or two people all of a sudden get a problem with IE and thousands do not all of a sudden get the same issue then it would seem to be user error or spyware or whatever else


To the best of my knowledge, that is because FF doesn't allow for dodgy html code and IE does. FF won't display the faulty code right and everyone thinks that it's a fault in FF when it's a fault in the page code. I don't know this as fact but I can bring up several links that will support my statement.
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PostPosted: 02-26-2005 01:00 PM           Profile   Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


dan1407 wrote:

One last thing, now that i use FF...its funny, i dont get anymore spyware !!! well..... so little compare to IE ...


Well if you notice that huge of a change in that little a time then you need to watch the webpages you goto and get a firewall.



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PostPosted: 02-27-2005 01:12 PM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


Kills On Site wrote:
Well if you notice that huge of a change in that little a time then you need to watch the webpages you goto and get a firewall.


Well i already have a firewall...:icon20:



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