Possible, but not probable:
Verify your \windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts. file only has the 127.0.0.1 localhost entry in it
If any other entries exist, delete them.
>Worked with Dell for an hour last night on a rebuilt PC. IE will not work - cannot find page error - but we get good pings (all 4 replies received back) and Outlook mail is working. We checked everything I could think of and finally came down to running some/all of these utilities:
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>LSPFix.exe
>WinsockFix.exe
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>Or installing SP2 and/or using FireFox. This is a client's PC, and I think he feels that it should work exactly as it did when he bought it. I used all the factory disks and everything seems to work great except IE.
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>Suggestions before I do any of the above?
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