D-link router DI624C, HP Pavillion Laptop, Windows XP, can connect to Firefox, not Internet Explorer

On the wireless (built-in) of the HP Pavillion laptop I can access Firefox
and Newsgroups, but not IE.

It says on the latter:

Web page cannot be displayed.

What can cause this?

 

It's caused by Microsoft, George W. Bush, and invading aliens in space
ships.

IE6 or IE7?
IE6 -> File -> Uncheck "work offline"

 

AH, now I understand. Aliens!!!

BTW It's IE and "Work off line" is NOT checked. That's not it. Sorry to say.

 

Turn off proxy settings.

 

John, can you pls be specific? Where do I turn that off?

 

John, if you mean at the LAN settings, it is NOT checked there, so it is
turned off.

 

Look for crop circles on the lawn. My computers go nuts every time
that happens.

Let's try again....IE comes in version 5, 6, and 7. Which IE do you
have? The bugs, glitches, configuration problems, and screwups are
different for each version.

Answering for John:
Tools -> Internet Options -> Connections -> LAN Settings
Uncheck everything unless you really are using a proxy server.

If that doesn't work, and you happen to have IE7, try:
Tools -> Diagnose Connection Problems

If that doesn't work, check the program settings for IE5, 6, or 7 in
the 3rd party personal firewall you might have installed. If you had
one installed and uninstalled it later, make sure it's really
uninstalled by check the running programs for anything the belonged to
the firewall program. If you're clueless as to the names, download
the clean uninstall program from the manufacturers web pile.

If that doesn't work, we're back to the aliens.

 

Thanks jeff. I never knew you were so superstitious, but then maybe you had
really experiences with Aliens, who knows?

It is version IE 6.0 that I have.

Work of-line is NOT checked.

 

Control Panel -> Internet Options -> Connections -> LAN Settings

 

I had the same thing happen to me several times. It was obviously an IE strangeness since Firefox, Email
and Newsgroups worked fine. I looked for answers everywhere, including asking Microsoft support. No
solution – all the normal advice did not work and the Microsoft advisor (including the supervisor) were
stumped. I ended up restoring the system to the state before this problem. I still have no idea what
causes this to happen from time to time.

 

But when did you KNOW that both IE6.x or 7.x worked AND E-mails and
Newsgroups and Firefox?

 

FWIW, I've never had it happen to me.

 

John, I appreciate also the various links and I have looked at them. But I
have NO problems with WI-FI itself (which is what these links address
mainly), but that IE6.X does not work, yet Firefox, E-mail and Newsgroups
do.

 

Which means that it's almost certainly a system and/or IE problem, not a
wireless networking problem. Have you tried repairing/reinstalling IE?

 

No, I shall try to repair IE now. Thanks, I did not think of that before.

 

I want to give you all the answer to my baffling problem.

IE6.X only INSISTED to be the DEFAULT Browser and then all things worked.

Now IE 6.X and Firefox both work.

Hard to believe that MS is so persistent!

 

IE isn't my default browser, and again, I don't even see that problem.
Perhaps something else got fixed in your configuration when you made IE
the default. You could check that by making Firefox the default (as I
have) and seeing if problems with IE reappear.