Michael
Active Member
Please, do not move this to another section, my last thread was ignored for around a week and I'm looking to resolve this issue.
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I have IE7 and FireFox on my computer, both are the newest, up to date versions. I use Vista Basic and have gone through HijackThis, Avast! and Spybot: Search and Destroy and have found nothing but a few bad cookies, which is fairly common on both of my computers.
I have my computers set up like this;
XP Home SP2 PC ----> Vista Basic PC ----> Cable Modem
I have the XP Home SP2 PC wired by ethernet to a secondary NIC on my Vista Basic machine using Windows ICS (internet connection sharing) and that computer never loses internet connectivity when this issue occurs. In fact, my Vista Basic machine, when this error occurs, says that there is no problem with the network connection and everything is working properly.
I've added both IE7 and Firefox to the Windows Firewall, as well as removed Avast! to test it out.. to no avail.
With all of that said and out of the way, this is the problem:
Occasionally, my browsers will both stop working properly. They'll both bring up a 'Could not locate remote server' error ( in their own words, of course), sometimes Windows Live Messenger will still work flawlessly during this issue, sometimes it will disconnect as well.
If I reboot my computer, my browsers work flawlessly again, as does Windows Live Messenger
I'm so damn lost here, I feel like I've tried everything! Can someone, please, help me figure this out
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I have IE7 and FireFox on my computer, both are the newest, up to date versions. I use Vista Basic and have gone through HijackThis, Avast! and Spybot: Search and Destroy and have found nothing but a few bad cookies, which is fairly common on both of my computers.
I have my computers set up like this;
XP Home SP2 PC ----> Vista Basic PC ----> Cable Modem
I have the XP Home SP2 PC wired by ethernet to a secondary NIC on my Vista Basic machine using Windows ICS (internet connection sharing) and that computer never loses internet connectivity when this issue occurs. In fact, my Vista Basic machine, when this error occurs, says that there is no problem with the network connection and everything is working properly.
I've added both IE7 and Firefox to the Windows Firewall, as well as removed Avast! to test it out.. to no avail.
With all of that said and out of the way, this is the problem:
Occasionally, my browsers will both stop working properly. They'll both bring up a 'Could not locate remote server' error ( in their own words, of course), sometimes Windows Live Messenger will still work flawlessly during this issue, sometimes it will disconnect as well.
If I reboot my computer, my browsers work flawlessly again, as does Windows Live Messenger
I'm so damn lost here, I feel like I've tried everything! Can someone, please, help me figure this out
Anyone?