Vista internet troubleshooting




















After installation launch Speccy and allow it to collect information about your system, then go to File Publish Snapshot and copy and paste the URL this generates e. The section titled Create a Local Profile in the How-To Geek article states in part that " You can avoid online-connectivity and syncing problems that can interfere with your gameplay by creating a local profile in other words, an offline profile rather than an online profile in GFWL Have you made any progress finding a solution to this problem?

I'm currently wondering if your router, firewall or some other security software is blocking ports that must be open to communicate with the backend GFWL servers. You might want to try temporarily disabling your firewall to see if that allows a connection to the GFWL server. If there are no connection problems when you boot up into Win 7 SP1, are some of the games you want to play not compatible with Vista SP2, or are you just curious why you're having connection problems since reinstalling your Vista SP2 OS?

I don't know why, but Microsoft made changes to the metadata of multiple Vista SP2 security updates in their Microsoft Update Catalog around March that likely affected the Vista SP2 updates posted on their Windows Update servers as well hence the new requirement to apply the MicrosoftRootCertificateAuthority I'm still waiting to hear if using Firefox ESR v For example, I still don't know what antivirus, if any, you use on your Vista SP2 machine, and I know of several users who had to add exclusions for the Steam executables in their antivirus software before they could run Steam on their system.

Did you follow the instructions in the Steam support article Troubleshooting Network Connectivity to try to diagnose your connection problem? If you applied the MicrosoftRootCertificateAuthority I don't have time to do update them one by one and restart the computer just to see which one. I had the same problem yesterday. There was a network shown between my computer and the internet icon, and there was a red X, between the network and the Internet.

Anyway i got ip from my router, and other coumputers also could use the internet throug the same router. Maybe it will help. Same problem on my Vista Home Premium portable.

It happened gradually, one browser after the other. I could still connect through Opera when IE and Firefox would give a "connexion refused" message. Now all of them give the same message. The notebook maker's support line suggested would you have guessed it? NOT something that I want to do. I recently had this happen to me out of nowhere, meaning no new app installs or anything to narrow down as the culprit.

I will be using the computer such as watching a dvd and downloading headers from newsgroups but IE or Firefox can't connect. I am clearly connected to the internet and Network Diag. It happens only occasionally and usually is rectified by a restart. I have found that it is more than likely a corrupt winsock protocol, although have not figured out what is causing the corruption.

Anyways, try this link or google winsock protocol reset and hope that helps. I'm also having Internet connectivity problems with Windows Mail and Internet Explorer, which mysteriously started last week. The Internet connection icon shows that I am connected to my wireless router. The problem seems to have started following a Windows Update last week, which made my IE unable to connect.

Windows Mail could still connect. A day later I got the Windows Update message that Vista SP1 was available, so I assumed that it had been quicky issued to resolve the connectivity problem. I backed up everything, and finally today decided to install SP1. It didn't resolve my connectivity issue, and now Windows Mail also has connectivity issues. Office Office Exchange Server. Not an IT pro? Windows Client.

Sign in. United States English. Ask a question. Complete Internet Repair is a highly useful tool for a number of internet related problems and is also a portable executable. Download Complete Internet Repair.

If your Internet connectivity has been corrupted due to removed or invalid registry entries after the removal of malware or a problem uninstall of an application that has modified the XP network and Winsock settings, then this tool can help. What is does is reset the TCP stack, replaces all Winsock registry entries with the defaults and then replaces the Hosts file with a standard one.

Winsock Fix can create a registry backup using Erunt of your current settings, which is recommended to be safe. Download Winsock Fix. Windows XP will restore these missing values with a reboot, Vista and 7 will not. Other tools or using the command line would produce an error trying to repair a non existent Winsock in the registry. You can go directly for the CurrentControlSet in the registry and set its Winsock to the defaults for your Windows version straight away, or try to restore whatever is found in the ControlSet backups.

The second option is useful if you want to try and save any registry information in Winsock from 3rd party applications. If you look at the number of Protocol entries found for any ControlSet, the minimum should be 10 and anything showing less than that has missing or corrupt entries. In XP it will also offer to replace mswsock. For Vista and 7 it will use the System File Checker to replace the mswsock. To use diagnose and repair, just open the Network and Sharing Center and click on Diagnose and Repair.

Figure 6: Diagnose and Repair. This tool will go through and check your network connection to identify problems. It will tell you basically what is wrong in the network connection but if you want more detailed information, you can check the Event Viewer. Firewalls are used to filter inbound and outbound network connections. Of course if the firewall is out on our LAN that is beyond the scope of this article. As for firewalls on your local Vista computer, you can even have more than one but the first one if you installed a 3rd party firewall.

However, the first thing that you want to check is the Windows Vista Firewall that is installed and enabled by default. It is unlikely that the Vista Firewall is blocking all network access. It is more likely that it is blocking just certain inbound or outbound network connections for specific applications.

While it is risky on a public shared network to disable your firewall, one of the first things that I usually do when I get to this point is to just turn off the Vista Firewall to see if your problem is resolved. If it is, you can re-enable the Vista Firewall and then troubleshoot it to determine what port you need to allow your network traffic through. At this point, you can view its status.

Figure 7: Checking the Windows Firewall. We can see that the Windows Firewall is enabled and that means that inbound connections that do not have an exception will be blocked. We can see that we should get a notification when a program is blocked. To try disabling the firewall or creating an exception, click Change Settings and you will see this:.



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