Guest Alastair121 Posted August 13, 2007 Posted August 13, 2007 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?
Guest Ray Shafranski Posted August 13, 2007 Posted August 13, 2007 "Alastair121" <Alastair121@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:4C5A4E33-8AFF-48F1-9F0D-347ECFFF9EFA@microsoft.com... >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.
Guest Alastair121 Posted August 13, 2007 Posted August 13, 2007 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" <Alastair121@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message > news:4C5A4E33-8AFF-48F1-9F0D-347ECFFF9EFA@microsoft.com... > >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. > > >
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