Is your browser not working in Windows 7? Here’s a checklist what you can do about it!
1. Step If your browser is not working the most frequent reason is that your firewall is blocking the access. Disable your software and hardware (router) firewall temporarily.
2. Step Another very common reason is that your DNS cache has not been updated with the new information. This can happen and is very normal. In order to fix this you have to flush your DNS settings. In short, open cmd.exe and enter ipconfig /flushdns. Full details: Flush DNS in Windows 7
3. Step Corrupt Winsock. Oh yea, I’ve been there! This is a mean one, but I wrote a little batch file to repair your winsock:
Download Winsock Fix for Windows 7
4. Step Make sure you don’t have a proxy enabled for your browser. If a proxy is set up, your connection may fail.
5. Step Maybe your ISP DNS Server is down. Try to use another DNS server for your DNS lookups. Learn how to set up OpenDNS
6. Step Your hosts file is missing. Restore missing hosts file
7. Step Try to do a system restore
8. Step Try to repair your internet connection with Microsoft’s FixIt tool: Troubleshooting Windows 7
9. Step The winsockfix might not help, but it might help to set autotuninglevel to highly restricted.
Open an elevated command prompt and enter netsh interface tcp set global autotuninglevel=highlyrestricted Try this as a last resort ONLY. To disable the autotuning for RWIN set it to disabled (autotuninglevel=disabled) .
hello,
i have this stange problem with getting on net on my job, everybody else with laptops can get internett access WIRED, but not me.. and im getting very anrgy.
i have win 7 64 bit versjon, and i have read 1000 site about problem like mine, but i cant find the solution.
normally when you put in the wired cable you have to open your browser, then it will redirect you to a logon site for conoco phillis were you have to insert username password. but my laptop gets a massage that it cant get ip adress, or somthing like that.. it gets a 169.x.x.x adress, and gateway is 255.255.0.0 and thats it.
i think its a nettwork setting problem, but i cant fugure out..
anybody with the same problem and a solution??
please help
Ole – norway