Internet Explorer Cannot Open

Discussion in 'Software' started by clemmo, Jan 10, 2004.

  1. clemmo

    clemmo Private E-2

    I'm working with a dell dimension 4600 2.66GHz 512MB WindowsXP. It's about two months old and suddenly I'm getting the following message when I attempt to enter refdesk.com and (believe it or not) majorgeeks.com. I had to switch users and go to my alternate screen to get onto majorgeeks.com but still cannot get to refdesk.com. each time i try to enter these sites i get the following message: Internet Explorer cannot open Internet site http://refdesk.com Opertation aborted.
    What happened? How do I correct this problem?
    Help
     
  2. Major Attitude

    Major Attitude Co-Owner MajorGeeks.Com Staff Member

    Can you tell us if theres anything you installed or tweaked before this happened, even weeks ago? Odds are whatever is causing this could be related to something you did, that you forgot about? Check your hosts file and see if there are any sites listed in there that are setup in there as 127.0.0.1. You could also go to your internet options in IE and try setting those settings back to default.

    Thats all I can think of at this moment. Maybe someone else has some ideas?
     
  3. Adrynalyne

    Adrynalyne Guest

    Clear your temporary internet files, delete cookies.

    Under the advanced tab of IE options, uncheck enable third party browser extensions.

    This one may not be neccessary:

    Delete the contents of downloaded program files.

    This is all done from Internet Options.

    Let us know if that helps.
     
    Last edited by a moderator: Jan 10, 2004
  4. †T-Rex †

    †T-Rex † Specialist

    The way you've described it sounds like a DNS problem.
     

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