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IE 5.5, OE5 and MSN Messenger Conflict on a Home Network 1

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4SWz

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Apr 10, 2001
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Background
I have a home network of two PCs. The gateway PC (attached to the modem) has Internet Connection Sharing enabled. I also had MSN Messenger 3.6 installed along with IE 5.5 and Outlook Express 5.

For a while I could not access my emails from my provider without MSN Messenger first signing in. My provider is not Hotmail. Once MSN Messenger had signed I could re-Send/Receive with success. Also disconnecting and reconnecting to my provider resulted in being unable to read my mail - a reboot (or two) was always needed. I also installed Norton Personal Firewall 3.0.

After two weeks, I could no longer use the internet through any of the providers I subscribe to.

I have uninstalled the Firewall to no effect. I uninstalled MSN Messenger to no effect (I have since reinstalled a 3.5 version).

My modem seems to be working in that dialling in and password verification takes place.

The problem
All my internet applications (IE5, OE5 etc) claim that there is no internet connection.

Advice Please
Any suggestions as to what might be causing this or where I might be able to get more information. My gut feeling is that it is something obvious, since it affects all my internet applications.

Thanks
 
It sounds like you had MSN Explorer installed not messenger.
You can set up a new internet connection, or Control Panel>internet options>connections tab> highlight your connection then click on settings, my guess is there is a check in the use proxy server box that you do not need.
Who is your ISP?
 
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