Hotmail

Post by **corpse** » Sat Feb 19, 2005 6:50 am

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.

Post by **AmIdYfReAk** » Sat Feb 19, 2005 6:36 pm

try loggin it from msn's site.. then clicking on Hotmail...

Post by **AmIdYfReAk** » Sat Feb 19, 2005 6:37 pm

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 )

Post by **corpse** » Sat Feb 19, 2005 8:12 pm

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.

Post by **AmIdYfReAk** » Sat Feb 19, 2005 10:16 pm

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

tryed firefox? what windows?

Post by **Tormentius** » Sat Feb 19, 2005 10:51 pm

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

Post by **corpse** » Sun Feb 20, 2005 10:06 am

Firefox solved the problem, whatever it was.

Thanks for the help

Post by **Tormentius** » Mon Feb 21, 2005 5:44 am

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.

Post by **Dr_Watson** » Mon Feb 21, 2005 8:05 am

classic... :icon19:

dumping IE solves issue with microsofts web-mail service.

Post by **Arkleseizure** » Mon Feb 21, 2005 9:50 pm

Use Yahoo.

Post by **Foo** » Mon Feb 21, 2005 10:19 pm

Arkleseizure wrote:Use Yahoo.

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

Post by **corpse** » Tue Feb 22, 2005 2:58 am

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.

Post by **D'Artagnan** » Fri Feb 25, 2005 2:53 pm

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

Post by **Tormentius** » Fri Feb 25, 2005 7:08 pm

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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Post by **4g3nt_Smith** » Fri Feb 25, 2005 9:07 pm

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

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Post by **Kills On Site** » Fri Feb 25, 2005 9:52 pm

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

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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

Post by **Tormentius** » Fri Feb 25, 2005 11:12 pm

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.

Post by **D'Artagnan** » Sat Feb 26, 2005 5:28 am

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 ...

Post by **D'Artagnan** » Sat Feb 26, 2005 5:34 am

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

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Sat Feb 26, 2005 9:10 am

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

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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.

Post by **Kills On Site** » Sat Feb 26, 2005 9:00 pm

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.

Post by **D'Artagnan** » Sun Feb 27, 2005 9:12 pm

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: