RE: IE7 Interfering with ISP

PLEASE, SOMEONE RESPOND TO THIS PROBLEM WE ARE HAVING. mega dittos to
foaming's complaints and attempts to resolve them. i cannot go on any other
website except windows media store where my music is, and can't go to any
other web page. i thought i had security problems, firewalls, etc., but my
Dell is brand new, they told me everything is connected, DSL told me my
connection was 100%, router is fine, etc., etc.,etc., i powered down and up
several times. still cannot access web pages since downloading IE7. On a
different PC of mine, the IE7 works, same version of XP, same IP provider.
what is going on?? please help? it has totally taken the joy out of this
latest version of IE. and taken hours and hours of time to figure this out.
we are not, after all, IT people. PLEASE HELP. IS THE ONLY OPTION TO
UNINSTALL AND GO BACK TO IE6?

"Foaming-At-The-Mouth MS-Hater" wrote:

> I unwittingly clicked the Windows update icon on my taskbar, thinking it one
> of Microsoft's periodic updates that do little in the ways of actually
> improving my computer's performance, and IE7 was downloaded as a result.
> Since then, I have been unable to sign onto my AIM account, unable to sign on
> through my ISP, and unable to access a myriad of websites I frequent via IE
> (even after I removed IE7, reverting back to IE6). When I run diagnostics on
> my internet connection, everything checks out fine. There's no problem with
> my LAN. Microsoft's diagnostic device suggests I "check [my] spelling" or
> "hit refresh" (wow, now, I REALLY wouldn't have thought to do that ten times
> on my own even BEFORE running the diagnostics) . . . I would REALLY like to
> know what's going on here. At first I thought it was a problem with my
> firewall (the ISP suggested this), but I checked over the exceptions list,
> and everything that needs to be allowed to work through it for the ISP and
> AIM to function is. WHAT DID MICROSOFT DO TO MY COMPUTER?! This is driving me
> insane. I'm a student, and this is finals week (not to mention almost a week
> before Christmas). I don't need the added stress of yet another idiotic
> "feature" offered by MS obstructing my capability of e-mailing my professors,
> IMing my classmates, and researching online for my papers.
>
> Any and all help is MUCH appreciated.

Have either of you tried Add/Remove Programs as a way of curing the problem?


"angelina" <> wrote in message
news:5A9747DE-71FA-4C22-B1C7-...
> PLEASE, SOMEONE RESPOND TO THIS PROBLEM WE ARE HAVING. mega dittos to
> foaming's complaints and attempts to resolve them. i cannot go on any
> other
> website except windows media store where my music is, and can't go to any
> other web page. i thought i had security problems, firewalls, etc., but
> my
> Dell is brand new, they told me everything is connected, DSL told me my
> connection was 100%, router is fine, etc., etc.,etc., i powered down and
> up
> several times. still cannot access web pages since downloading IE7. On a
> different PC of mine, the IE7 works, same version of XP, same IP provider.
> what is going on?? please help? it has totally taken the joy out of this
> latest version of IE. and taken hours and hours of time to figure this
> out.
> we are not, after all, IT people. PLEASE HELP. IS THE ONLY OPTION TO
> UNINSTALL AND GO BACK TO IE6?
>
> "Foaming-At-The-Mouth MS-Hater" wrote:
>
>> I unwittingly clicked the Windows update icon on my taskbar, thinking it
>> one
>> of Microsoft's periodic updates that do little in the ways of actually
>> improving my computer's performance, and IE7 was downloaded as a result.
>> Since then, I have been unable to sign onto my AIM account, unable to
>> sign on
>> through my ISP, and unable to access a myriad of websites I frequent via
>> IE
>> (even after I removed IE7, reverting back to IE6). When I run diagnostics
>> on
>> my internet connection, everything checks out fine. There's no problem
>> with
>> my LAN. Microsoft's diagnostic device suggests I "check [my] spelling" or
>> "hit refresh" (wow, now, I REALLY wouldn't have thought to do that ten
>> times
>> on my own even BEFORE running the diagnostics) . . . I would REALLY like
>> to
>> know what's going on here. At first I thought it was a problem with my
>> firewall (the ISP suggested this), but I checked over the exceptions
>> list,
>> and everything that needs to be allowed to work through it for the ISP
>> and
>> AIM to function is. WHAT DID MICROSOFT DO TO MY COMPUTER?! This is
>> driving me
>> insane. I'm a student, and this is finals week (not to mention almost a
>> week
>> before Christmas). I don't need the added stress of yet another idiotic
>> "feature" offered by MS obstructing my capability of e-mailing my
>> professors,
>> IMing my classmates, and researching online for my papers.
>>
>> Any and all help is MUCH appreciated.