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hey guys,
yesterday i was surfing n browsing fine using firefox on windows xp. today nothing,n i mean nothing, i have tried using IE but it also dsnt do anything,i have uninstalled n installed firefox still nothing. when i load firefox it is taking longer than usual to load same to IE and the end result IE says page cannot be displayed,firefox keeps showing loading with nothing showing. I have checked my network connection n everything is ok.when i switch to linux i have no problem surfing,when i go back to windows,nothing from either browsers,i havent installed any software recently and even uninstalled the firewall just in case it was the problem but it wasnt.

i have looked around the net but no concrete answers have come forward,i even tried resetting my tcpip configuration using the following command netsh int ip resetlog.txt but still nothing.

any assistance will be appreciated and ad want to know wht leads to this happening.

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Symptoms point to a Windows-specific networking/configuration problem (hardware and router are probably fine if the same machine boots Linux and gets web access). was headed in the right direction by requesting the Windows network details, and 's note about the socket layer is also relevant — the usual suspects are DNS resolution, proxy settings, a corrupted socket/LSP stack, or a third-party network filter/driver.

Start with a short checklist (do one item at a time, reboot after changes and keep a restore point):

  • Verify adapter DNS settings in the IPv4 properties and try a known public DNS if the current servers look wrong.
  • Inspect the hosts file (for example the system drivers\etc\hosts file) for forced mappings and remove any unexpected lines; save a backup copy before editing.
  • Check browser and system proxy/LAN settings and disable any proxy/VPN/transparent proxy client you did not install.
  • Temporarily remove or disable third-party security/traffic-shaping tools and any virtual network adapters (VPN/VBox/VMWare/Hamachi) that might hijack DNS.
  • Confirm Windows networking services are running and reinstall the NIC driver if the adapter looks misbehaving.

If those do not help, repair the socket/name-resolution layer and the layered service provider entries using a reputable repair/reset procedure (create a restore point first). Follow that with an up-to-date offline malware scan — many network problems trace to LSP-hooking malware or badly behaved firewall/filter drivers.

When asking for more help, include the full Windows network adapter configuration (IP, gateway, DNS entries, adapter names), any odd lines from the hosts file, and a short list of installed network tools or VPN clients. That lets others correlate with ’s request for configuration detail and with ’s winsock suggestion so targeted steps can be given.

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try nslookup google.com - does it resolve?

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try nslookup google.com - does it resolve?

No!

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ipconfig /all - paste it here

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try winsocfix,search google for it

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