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[scottdfs]

have vista home. ie8 started displaying "page cannot be displayed". but i am leasing an ip address, and can ping my isp. i reset tcp/ip stack and winsock catalog using netsh. did not help. uninstalled ie8, rolled back to 7, still no luck. i ran hijackthis and malwarebytes and removed a bunch of malware, but still get page cannot be displayed.

 

[linney]

Any luck from "Safe Mode with Networking"? What about Normal Mode but with another user?

Are you still able to get any E-mails downloaded, or is the whole Internet gone?

What firewalling do you have?

Is there any Proxy Server setting being set for IE via the Connections Tab and LAN?

Do you have a Nvidia Network Card, or are you running a Service called Bonjour, both of these have caused strange problems in the past?

Repair IE8 (IE7)

http://iefaq.info/index.php?action=artikel&cat=42&id=133&artlang=en

Have you tried resetting IE to Defaults or running it with No Add-ons?

How to use Reset Internet Explorer Settings (RIES)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/923737#appliesto

See the link about cleaning out your Temporary Internet Files, but also read about corrupted Index.dat files.

Safely Delete the Temporary Internet Files

http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/delcache.htm

How to repair the operating system and how to restore the operating system configuration to an earlier point in time in Windows Vista

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/936212/#appliesto