IE7 & Firefox Stopped working as if no Internet Connection

*IE7 & Firefox Stopped working as if no Internet Connection*
The Power people came to our door and said they would be turning of
the power for 2 hours. I called up to my wife and said do a shutdown o
your laptop (Toshiba) and I shut mine down (HP). After the new poll
were installed, the power came back on, I was out fishing, came home
turned on my computer, all was fine, went to browse and it (Firefo
latest 3xxx). The netwok is fine, AIM loads, my weatherbugs load and ge
this, EVEN AOL software/browser and what stumps me most, AOL Desktop
which I thought was really even a more generic IE Browser works. FF an
IE7 acts as if their is no internet connection

Wife's was working fine. Reset Sat Modem, Reset Netgear Router. Trie
everything I know, crapped out. RESET ROUTER to generic unsecure mode
no different. Uninstallted Mcaffe, nothing, Turned off Windows Firewall
NOTHING. Both browers act like no internet connection (Even went Cat
hard wire, no change) I am a hardware guy, certainly not a software gu
for 25 years. This one has me stumped. As I said AOL works with it
browser, desktop works, all the stuff like AIM (standalone) works
Sidebar internet items work, connection is right, no browers.

Any Ideas, wrong forum? Something makes me believe hardware, so
backed it all up and did a simple restore that does not FORMAT or remov
files, nothing, went back to SEP 12th Recovery, no help.I am stumped?

Thank

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VistaHopeless

Run Command Prompt (cmd.exe) as a administrator and insert

*netsh winsock reset *+restar

if no help you again run cmd.exe with administrative previlliges an
insert

*netsh int ip reset C:\resetlog.txt *+restar

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Flavius

Thank you Flavius. I did both, in the order you gave me, it did things
but did not bring back the browsers. Will keep working on it

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VistaHopeless

Try to reset Internet Explorer settings +restar
http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/11...orer-reset.htm

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Flavius

Oh lord, I tried all of that normal stuff before I posted. I worked o
it for a week, and thank you for your time and support. I just did
backup and complete restore from scratch and it is working again. Las
resort, but I was at whit's end, I will never know now what this was,
still think it is hardware related, but what else does a hardware gu
believe anyway :

::_-*It_is_resolved_now*-_::. due to complete restore as it came out o
the box

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VistaHopeless

how do you run command prompt in as admin? Mine says something abou
elevation. im a noooooo

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bmart727

>
> how do you run command prompt in as admin?
>
Right click on *cmd.exe* as administrator


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Flavius