For the last fortnight or so, I have been unable to access the internet on my PC. I can dial up to my ISP and all seems to go well until I try and open a site in IE 5.5. I always get an error message saying 'The page cannot be displyed'. I went through the process of clearing all Temp files, uninstalling and re installing TCP/IP and dial up networking, all to no avail. I even followed through the full procedure in Microsoft article Q241344. More recently I found the following: While using Internet sharing, my other PC that is peer networked does allow the pages to display, even though the 'master computer' still has the error message. The other thing I noticed is that if I ping in the DOS window, by using the normal address ( nothing happens. If I use the numbers (144.135.18.10) I get a good response. Please help. If I Have to fully reinstal Windows is there a way without loosing my existing programs, regards.
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Error mess: 'This page cannot be displayed'
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Try extracting winsock.dll and wsock32.dll.....those files, obviously, if corrupt, can lead to inability to browse. What version of windows is it? A little more info, and I'd be happy to help
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Frankgue, you said you can access the page by typing the IP numbers but not the address in text.
It might be a DNS problem.
DNS stands for Domain Name System. DNS is a protocol used throughout large networks, such as the Internet to resolve IP numbers to network names. In other words, instead of having to know the address you can type to get to Cnet's home page.
Try this:
1. Double-click My Computer then double-click Dial Up Networking.
2. Right-click once on the icon of your connection and choose Properties from the pop-up menu.
3. Click the Server Types tab or button.
4. Click the TCP/IP settings button.
5. If Server assigned DNS Server is checked, click OK and close Dial Up Networking.
6. If not, click once in the Server Assigned Name Server.
7. Click OK on each box then close Dial Up Networking.
You can also enter the IP address of the Home Page of your ISP.
I have a two machine network (1 Win98 and 1 Win95)
I wasn't able to access anything with my Win95 machine until I did this.
(I had to do this via Network Nieghborhood being that I had ethernet connections & cable).
Hope this helps
Shawn
It might be a DNS problem.
DNS stands for Domain Name System. DNS is a protocol used throughout large networks, such as the Internet to resolve IP numbers to network names. In other words, instead of having to know the address you can type to get to Cnet's home page.
Try this:
1. Double-click My Computer then double-click Dial Up Networking.
2. Right-click once on the icon of your connection and choose Properties from the pop-up menu.
3. Click the Server Types tab or button.
4. Click the TCP/IP settings button.
5. If Server assigned DNS Server is checked, click OK and close Dial Up Networking.
6. If not, click once in the Server Assigned Name Server.
7. Click OK on each box then close Dial Up Networking.
You can also enter the IP address of the Home Page of your ISP.
I have a two machine network (1 Win98 and 1 Win95)
I wasn't able to access anything with my Win95 machine until I did this.
(I had to do this via Network Nieghborhood being that I had ethernet connections & cable).
Hope this helps
Shawn
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Thanks Shakenama,
I will give this a go as soon as I get home from work - I must say the whole process is very frustrating. Part of the problem is being in Australia and having different time zones to other respondents, making it hard to respond instantly to suggestions like your own. All the same I am very appreciative of your and others assistance.
I will give this a go as soon as I get home from work - I must say the whole process is very frustrating. Part of the problem is being in Australia and having different time zones to other respondents, making it hard to respond instantly to suggestions like your own. All the same I am very appreciative of your and others assistance.
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