[RESOLVED] No websites will load

[Satan Claws]

I've had this problem on several PC's when a dial-up will connect fine but no webpages will load, no matter what dial-up account you use or what page you try and visit. I have removed and re-installed all TCP/IP settings, the modem and dial-up networking but nothing works, eventually I have to fdisk and re-install windows to get it to work but I have one in the shop now which I cannot wipe so any help would be most appreciated.
Many Thanks
S.C.

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"It's a shame all the people who really know how to run the world are too busy driving taxi's and cutting peoples hair" -- George Bernard Shaw

[K4limera]

Ahh, this old chestnut, ive had the misfortune to encounter this a couple of times; and decided on reformat being the quickest solution. As youve said you cant do that but I just thought id let you know ive had the same prob. If you check on the data transfer is it just a few thousand bytes for send and recieve? Gah, sorry I cant be more help....

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'Have you turned it on at the back?'

[K4limera]

Yes, one thing that did resolve one of the cases me jus remembered was sys file checker, I know u probably tried that already, but on the PC I was working on windows was missing all sorts of system files, and was the reason the modem wasnt dialling, worth a go! (god im useless!, hehee)

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'Have you turned it on at the back?'

[Acura Tech]

Uninstall the Dialup networking

delete this key in the registry :

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Servic es\Winsock2

Reboot

Reinstall the DialUp Networking
Reinstall TCP/IP

It should work.

[paul.rowling]

I had this problem yesterday, I tried reinstalling TCP/IP, dial up networking - the lot, but to no avail. It eventually turned out to be that the PPP LCP Extensions in Dial Up Networking had been enabled. Once I disabled this the machine connected to web pages and pinged other machines fine.

[rprestenback]

<font face="Tahoma, Arial, Helvetica, Verdana, Geneva" size="2">Originally posted by Acura Tech:
Uninstall the Dialup networking

delete this key in the registry :

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Servic es\Winsock2

Reboot

Reinstall the DialUp Networking
Reinstall TCP/IP

It should work.</font>

This is the correct solution to this problem.
You only have to uninstall TCP/IP however. The most efficient order would be:
Remove winsock2 key
Uninstall TCP/IP (after which requires reboot)
Reinstall TCP/IP
Start surfing



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If it ain't broke, you ain't tweaking it hard enough!

[Satan Claws]

Remove that string in the registry did the trick, hopefully that will work in the future when this problem crops up again. Cheers for those who suggested it, it saved me a lot of time and effort with a relatively simple solution.
Many thanks.

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"It's a shame all the people who really know how to run the world are too busy driving taxi's and cutting peoples hair" -- George Bernard Shaw