Problem connecting to Microsoft

I bought a new Gateway Laptop with Vista Basic and IE7 pre-installed. It
connects to the internet first time with a strong signal but it refuses to
connect to:-
Microsoft.com
Hotmail.com
Bebo.com
Microsoft updates also do not work because of the microsoft.com above.

95% of all other web sites connect without problems. I connect via a Belkin
Wireless router F5D7632uk4 which is used by 4 other PC's and laptops without
any problems. 3 are XP and one is Vista Professional.

I have tried DRTCP and moved MTU's to 1794 as per the help page but it made
no difference. I deleted McAfee and switched off the Microsoft firewall,
again no difference and still no microsoft connection.

This poblem is driving me up the wall as the micrsoft help pages have a
wealth o information and I cannot access them. Any solution ideas?

"Alastair121" <> wrote in message
news:4C5A4E33-8AFF-48F1-9F0D-...
>I bought a new Gateway Laptop with Vista Basic and IE7 pre-installed. It
> connects to the internet first time with a strong signal but it refuses to
> connect to:-
> Microsoft.com
> Hotmail.com
> Bebo.com
> Microsoft updates also do not work because of the microsoft.com above.
>
> 95% of all other web sites connect without problems. I connect via a
> Belkin
> Wireless router F5D7632uk4 which is used by 4 other PC's and laptops
> without
> any problems. 3 are XP and one is Vista Professional.
>
> I have tried DRTCP and moved MTU's to 1794 as per the help page but it
> made
> no difference. I deleted McAfee and switched off the Microsoft firewall,
> again no difference and still no microsoft connection.
>
> This poblem is driving me up the wall as the micrsoft help pages have a
> wealth o information and I cannot access them. Any solution ideas?
>
>
>
Perhaps your Hosts file (in windows\system32\drivers\etc) is blocking those
sites, try renaming Hosts (n.b. no suffix) to Nohosts.

Ray,


Thanks for post. I'm off to London for a few days but I'll give your
suggestion a try as soon as I get back.

Thanks,


Alastair

"Ray Shafranski" wrote:

> "Alastair121" <> wrote in message
> news:4C5A4E33-8AFF-48F1-9F0D-...
> >I bought a new Gateway Laptop with Vista Basic and IE7 pre-installed. It
> > connects to the internet first time with a strong signal but it refuses to
> > connect to:-
> > Microsoft.com
> > Hotmail.com
> > Bebo.com
> > Microsoft updates also do not work because of the microsoft.com above.
> >
> > 95% of all other web sites connect without problems. I connect via a
> > Belkin
> > Wireless router F5D7632uk4 which is used by 4 other PC's and laptops
> > without
> > any problems. 3 are XP and one is Vista Professional.
> >
> > I have tried DRTCP and moved MTU's to 1794 as per the help page but it
> > made
> > no difference. I deleted McAfee and switched off the Microsoft firewall,
> > again no difference and still no microsoft connection.
> >
> > This poblem is driving me up the wall as the micrsoft help pages have a
> > wealth o information and I cannot access them. Any solution ideas?
> >
> >
> >
> Perhaps your Hosts file (in windows\system32\drivers\etc) is blocking those
> sites, try renaming Hosts (n.b. no suffix) to Nohosts.
>
>
>