# Vista and internet problems

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**Category:** NYSpeed Off Topic\
**Created:** [October 12, 2007, 8:10pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/vista-and-internet-problems/36916 "2007-10-12T20:10:01Z")\
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**Author:** ![MikeRi24](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/57b2e6/32.png) [@MikeRi24](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/MikeRi24)\
**Post date:** [October 12, 2007, 8:10pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/vista-and-internet-problems/36916/1 "2007-10-12T20:10:01Z")

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My laptop has Vista on it. Everything was working just fine, then for some reason one day it decided to stop loading Firefox and IE. AIM still works though, so i still have internet coming in. I tried the windows connection fixer-uper thing and it says it could not find any problems with the connection. I ran my Symantec Client Security scan and it came up with nothing. any suggestions?

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**Author:** ![jabbu](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/jabbu/32/7446_2.png) [@jabbu](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/jabbu)\
**Post date:** [October 12, 2007, 8:23pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/vista-and-internet-problems/36916/2 "2007-10-12T20:23:21Z")

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firefox or IE don’t load, or a site doesn’t load within them?

If AIM works, but not a site, usually DNS issue.

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**Author:** ![MikeRi24](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/57b2e6/32.png) [@MikeRi24](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/MikeRi24)\
**Post date:** [October 12, 2007, 8:25pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/vista-and-internet-problems/36916/3 "2007-10-12T20:25:20Z")

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firefox or IE don’t load, or a site doesn’t load within them?

If AIM works, but not a site, usually DNS issue.

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the borwsers come up, but no sites will load. it says “server not found”

i am completely illiterate when it comes to computers too

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**Author:** ![jabbu](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/jabbu/32/7446_2.png) [@jabbu](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/jabbu)\
**Post date:** [October 12, 2007, 8:28pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/vista-and-internet-problems/36916/4 "2007-10-12T20:28:52Z")

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Make sure your DNS server is setup to obtain auto.

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Just follow instructoins for the DNS part.

Then i’d check your hosts file, make sure nothing generic is in there blocking all traffic.  
[http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm](http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm)

If those fail, i’d install adaware or spybot and run a full scan.

If your not familiar with hosts file, then just try the adaware first maybe.