vista not connecting to internet

1 - I bought a new gateway with vista about 3 or 4 weeks ago.
2 - It has been running just fine
3 - Today, I am unable to connect to internet
4 - My laptop with wireless connects fine
5 - My wife's desk top with xp connects fine
6 - I've done all of the normal things
a - rebooted
b - made sure all updates were installed
c - shut down and restarted
d - pulled power on both machine and modem

Anyone have suggestions??????

davidh313

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> 1 - I bought a new gateway with vista about 3 or 4 weeks ago.
> 2 - It has been running just fine
> 3 - Today, I am unable to connect to internet
> 4 - My laptop with wireless connects fine
> 5 - My wife's desk top with xp connects fine
> 6 - I've done all of the normal things
> a - rebooted
> b - made sure all updates were installed
> c - shut down and restarted
> d - pulled power on both machine and modem
>
> Anyone have suggestions??????
>
> davidh313

Before we can help we need a bit more info. Open a command window, and do
ipconfig /all and tell us what the ip addresses are (and the default
gateway).

Gaz

On Aug 2, 3:22 pm, "Gaz" <gaz...@msn.com> wrote:
> davidholewin...@hotmail.com wrote:
> > 1 - I bought a new gateway with vista about 3 or 4 weeks ago.
> > 2 - It has been running just fine
> > 3 - Today, I am unable to connect to internet
> > 4 - My laptop with wireless connects fine
> > 5 - My wife's desk top with xp connects fine
> > 6 - I've done all of the normal things
> > a - rebooted
> > b - made sure all updates were installed
> > c - shut down and restarted
> > d - pulled power on both machine and modem
>
> > Anyone have suggestions??????
>
> > davidh313
>
> Before we can help we need a bit more info. Open a command window, and do
> ipconfig /all and tell us what the ip addresses are (and the default
> gateway).
>
> Gaz

Found the problem, talked with Gateway's Vista expert, it was McAfee
that was blocking my computer from entering the internet. Uninstalled
McAfee and the problem went away, reinstalled McAfee and it all seems
to work fine now. Thanks
davidh313

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> 1 - I bought a new gateway with vista about 3 or 4 weeks ago.
> 2 - It has been running just fine
> 3 - Today, I am unable to connect to internet
> 4 - My laptop with wireless connects fine
> 5 - My wife's desk top with xp connects fine
> 6 - I've done all of the normal things
> a - rebooted
> b - made sure all updates were installed
> c - shut down and restarted
> d - pulled power on both machine and modem
>
> Anyone have suggestions??????

Linux ?

Graham

(E-Mail Removed) wrote:

> Found the problem, talked with Gateway's Vista expert, it was McAfee
> that was blocking my computer from entering the internet. Uninstalled
> McAfee and the problem went away, reinstalled McAfee and it all seems
> to work fine now. Thanks

Why on easrth are you using a piece of crap like McAfee ? It's only marginally
less worse than Norton !

Graham

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> On Aug 2, 3:22 pm, "Gaz" <gaz...@msn.com> wrote:
>> davidholewin...@hotmail.com wrote:
>> > 1 - I bought a new gateway with vista about 3 or 4 weeks ago.
>> > 2 - It has been running just fine
>> > 3 - Today, I am unable to connect to internet
>> > 4 - My laptop with wireless connects fine
>> > 5 - My wife's desk top with xp connects fine
>> > 6 - I've done all of the normal things
>> > a - rebooted
>> > b - made sure all updates were installed
>> > c - shut down and restarted
>> > d - pulled power on both machine and modem
>>
>> > Anyone have suggestions??????
>>
>> > davidh313
>>
>> Before we can help we need a bit more info. Open a command window, and do
>> ipconfig /all and tell us what the ip addresses are (and the default
>> gateway).
>>
>> Gaz
>
> Found the problem, talked with Gateway's Vista expert, it was McAfee
> that was blocking my computer from entering the internet. Uninstalled
> McAfee and the problem went away,

You should have stopped at this point


> reinstalled McAfee and it all seems to work fine now.

For now /

Eeyore wrote:
> (E-Mail Removed) wrote:
>
>> 1 - I bought a new gateway with vista about 3 or 4 weeks ago.
>> 2 - It has been running just fine
>> 3 - Today, I am unable to connect to internet
>> 4 - My laptop with wireless connects fine
>> 5 - My wife's desk top with xp connects fine
>> 6 - I've done all of the normal things
>> a - rebooted
>> b - made sure all updates were installed
>> c - shut down and restarted
>> d - pulled power on both machine and modem
>>
>> Anyone have suggestions??????
>
> Linux ?
>
> Graham

I know vista has its problems, but it is a long way from been that bad.

Gaz

"Gaz" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> Eeyore wrote:
>> (E-Mail Removed) wrote:
>>
>>> 1 - I bought a new gateway with vista about 3 or 4 weeks ago.
>>> 2 - It has been running just fine
>>> 3 - Today, I am unable to connect to internet
>>> 4 - My laptop with wireless connects fine
>>> 5 - My wife's desk top with xp connects fine
>>> 6 - I've done all of the normal things
>>> a - rebooted
>>> b - made sure all updates were installed
>>> c - shut down and restarted
>>> d - pulled power on both machine and modem
>>>
>>> Anyone have suggestions??????
>>
>> Linux ?
>>
>> Graham
>
> I know vista has its problems, but it is a long way from been that bad.

Actually, I think Vista is a long way from being finished. Brand-new Vista
machine took about 1.5 hours the other night to install the brand-new
printer that they'd bought with it - kept seeing the message "programe not
responding" and then it would continue anyway.

On Fri, 3 Aug 2007 15:37:09 +0100, "Mike Roman"
<(E-Mail Removed)> mused:

>"Gaz" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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>> Eeyore wrote:
>>> (E-Mail Removed) wrote:
>>>
>>>> 1 - I bought a new gateway with vista about 3 or 4 weeks ago.
>>>> 2 - It has been running just fine
>>>> 3 - Today, I am unable to connect to internet
>>>> 4 - My laptop with wireless connects fine
>>>> 5 - My wife's desk top with xp connects fine
>>>> 6 - I've done all of the normal things
>>>> a - rebooted
>>>> b - made sure all updates were installed
>>>> c - shut down and restarted
>>>> d - pulled power on both machine and modem
>>>>
>>>> Anyone have suggestions??????
>>>
>>> Linux ?
>>>
>>> Graham
>>
>> I know vista has its problems, but it is a long way from been that bad.
>
>Actually, I think Vista is a long way from being finished. Brand-new Vista
>machine took about 1.5 hours the other night to install the brand-new
>printer that they'd bought with it - kept seeing the message "programe not
>responding" and then it would continue anyway.
>
XP does that, and it still isn't finished either, doubt it ever will
be, nor will any revision of Windows.
--
Regards,
Stuart.

"Lurch" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> On Fri, 3 Aug 2007 15:37:09 +0100, "Mike Roman"
> <(E-Mail Removed)> mused:
>>Actually, I think Vista is a long way from being finished. Brand-new Vista
>>machine took about 1.5 hours the other night to install the brand-new
>>printer that they'd bought with it - kept seeing the message "programe not
>>responding" and then it would continue anyway.
>>
> XP does that, and it still isn't finished either, doubt it ever will
> be, nor will any revision of Windows.

XP only does it when a program is either truly screwed or taking a seriously
ridiculous amount of time to process, which is very very rare in my
experience. It may not be finished, but it's stable.