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This morning my HP Pavilion 7915 worked fine. Then I got some kind of update from Adobe and tried to run it. It said it was already there, and asked if I wanted to overwrite or put it elsewhre. I could do neither.

Also, I believe I may have had an Internet Explorer Update. The icon now looks different when the application shows on the taskbar.

Then I tried logging onto internet, and Internet Explorer won't allow me to, saying "Internet Explorer cannot display the webpage." I called my dsl server and they confirmed the modem is OK (it works well with my wireless laptop).

On the Network Diagnostics page for XP it shows everything OK except under Connectivity it says "FTP (Passive): Error 12029 connecting to ftp microsoft.com. A connection with the server could not be established."

What does all this mean and what can I do?

Thanks,

khgibson (first time poster)
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Also, I believe I may have had an Internet Explorer Update. The icon now looks different when the application shows on the taskbar.


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you could try going to add remove programs in the control panel and remove the ie7 update and go back ti ie6 ,may help
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Simple. Open internet explorer, go to tools, internet options, connections tab, click on LAN settins and un-check everything in there.
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great advice, this worked for me
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Re: Error 12029 A connection to server could not be established

I'm also facing similar issue. I tried both the options specified above but issue still persists.

now whenever I try to make any change in the internet option and say OK. Browser crashes. Any suggestions.
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I'm also facing similar issue. I tried both the options specified above but issue still persists.

now whenever I try to make any change in the internet option and say OK. Browser crashes. Any suggestions.
what version of IE are you using ,if IE7 ,get and install IE8 see what happens .
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/int...r/default.aspx
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Error 12029 A connection to server could not be established

It seems that several of us are having the same problem: (I am using an IBM Thinkpad T30, running XP & IE and most other MS products) and am failing to connect to the Internet. Running the XP Network Diagnostics, I am getting the following error messages:

HTTP, HTTPS, FTP Diagnostic
HTTP, HTTPS, FTP connectivity

info FTP (Passive): Successfully connected to ftp.microsoft.com.
info HTTPS: Successfully connected to www.microsoft.com.
warn HTTP: Error 12029 connecting to www.microsoft.com: A connection with the server could not be established
error Could not make an HTTP connection.

Has anyone cracked this or a similar problem, if so what was your solution?
Appreciate any help, Regards, daviddgw
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what version of IE are you using ,if IE7 ,get and install IE8 see what happens .
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/int...r/default.aspx
But how can I upgrade to IE8 without an Internet connection? Can I download it to another PC, and transfer it to the failing PC?
If so, please can you give me a link to the appropriaye MS Website?
Thank you,
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the link is in post #6
and yes you can dowload it on another computer and transfer the exe file to your computer ans run the install
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Re: Error 12029 A connection to server could not be established
Thanks very much for your post, it worked straight away no problem.

Lesson to be learned here always have another browser on your machine.

Thanks again.
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