This is one of the most difficult problems I've faced with Windows.
MSIE 8 will not bring up google.com. It works fine on Bing.com, Yahoo.com, etc.
I can go to most any site and it works, (EXCEPT certain pages on the MS website, google.com, etc)
But if I try to go to a ssl site, https://.... it will either time out, or only show the text and nothing else, or just give an error msg that the page does not exist.
Windows Update also fails. gives error number 0x80072EE2.
I have scanned for viruses, using the MS safety scanner, Forticlient and Mcfee all report nothing. AVG does report hooks into atapi and 3 other files. I read as much as I could on these notices and most people online felt these were false positives. Since everyone other program has not alerted to these I have not been too concerned.
I have tried every solution listed here:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/813444
except no. 6.
I reset MSIE to all the defaults. no diff
I tried to reinstall MSIE 8 by going to the Ms website with Opera (which also works fine) and downloading the stand alone version of MSIE 8 and it installed, but give several errors and rebooted automatically.
When I ran the sfc /scannow it did it's thing had me put the CD in the drive and copied files over... about 60% of the way it said I had the wrong windows CD. The computer originally came with Windows XP Media Edition sp2 and I had upgraded it to Sp3. The CD I was using was Widows XP pro with SP3 from another computer. Should be fine, but I put the SP2 disc in that originally came with the computer (Dell 1705) and it said it was the wrong CD.... so I put the SP 3 CD back in and I hit try again.. fail. I hit try again... fail, I hit try again.. success.... then fail, hit try again... success... then fail... did this for about 20 minutes.. it'd go and then it'd quit, etc. I figured the CD must be damaged, but it did complete. Rebooted but nothing changed.
That's when I tied to run Windows update and got the failed msg above.
Firefox and Opera work fine. But I prefer MSIE. Does anyone have any help they can offer on this? The only other issue with the computer is that my desktop icons always align themselves to the grid, regardless if I turn it off or not. If I create a new user it works fine. Just my user account seems to be messed up on that issue. Otherwise the computer has been good. I've been behind a fortigate 60 firewall for over a year. (although I'm not sure it was configured correctly, but that's another issue.)
What really confuses me is that google com will not come up in MSiE at all.
I can see how the SSL thing might have an issue but google.com?
Would pay anyone money, donate to the site, etc if you can help.
Thanks.
MSIE 8 will not bring up google.com. It works fine on Bing.com, Yahoo.com, etc.
I can go to most any site and it works, (EXCEPT certain pages on the MS website, google.com, etc)
But if I try to go to a ssl site, https://.... it will either time out, or only show the text and nothing else, or just give an error msg that the page does not exist.
Windows Update also fails. gives error number 0x80072EE2.
I have scanned for viruses, using the MS safety scanner, Forticlient and Mcfee all report nothing. AVG does report hooks into atapi and 3 other files. I read as much as I could on these notices and most people online felt these were false positives. Since everyone other program has not alerted to these I have not been too concerned.
I have tried every solution listed here:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/813444
except no. 6.
I reset MSIE to all the defaults. no diff
I tried to reinstall MSIE 8 by going to the Ms website with Opera (which also works fine) and downloading the stand alone version of MSIE 8 and it installed, but give several errors and rebooted automatically.
When I ran the sfc /scannow it did it's thing had me put the CD in the drive and copied files over... about 60% of the way it said I had the wrong windows CD. The computer originally came with Windows XP Media Edition sp2 and I had upgraded it to Sp3. The CD I was using was Widows XP pro with SP3 from another computer. Should be fine, but I put the SP2 disc in that originally came with the computer (Dell 1705) and it said it was the wrong CD.... so I put the SP 3 CD back in and I hit try again.. fail. I hit try again... fail, I hit try again.. success.... then fail, hit try again... success... then fail... did this for about 20 minutes.. it'd go and then it'd quit, etc. I figured the CD must be damaged, but it did complete. Rebooted but nothing changed.
That's when I tied to run Windows update and got the failed msg above.
Firefox and Opera work fine. But I prefer MSIE. Does anyone have any help they can offer on this? The only other issue with the computer is that my desktop icons always align themselves to the grid, regardless if I turn it off or not. If I create a new user it works fine. Just my user account seems to be messed up on that issue. Otherwise the computer has been good. I've been behind a fortigate 60 firewall for over a year. (although I'm not sure it was configured correctly, but that's another issue.)
What really confuses me is that google com will not come up in MSiE at all.
I can see how the SSL thing might have an issue but google.com?
Would pay anyone money, donate to the site, etc if you can help.
Thanks.