Cant access the net

[Noobita]

well i was following one of the threads here for removing my spyware probs, I reached the part where i need to do the AVG scan it went good then i did a restart and went to normal mode, :/ I clicks on mozilla and it just stayed there blank i even tried IE but wont work. anyone help pls? ;(

 

[kimsland]

Please try this:

Manual steps to run Chkdsk from My Computer or Windows Explorer

• Open My Computer, and then right-click the hard disk that you want to check.
• Click Properties, and then click Tools.
• Under Error-checking, click Check Now. A dialog box that shows the Check disk options is displayed

Use one of the following procedures:

• • To run Chkdsk in read-only mode, click Start.
• • To repair errors without scanning the volume for bad sectors, select the Automatically fix file system errors check box, and then click Start. (tick)
• • To repair errors, locate bad sectors, and recover readable information, select the Scan for and attempt recovery of bad sectors check box.

Note If one or more of the files on the hard disk are open, you will receive the following message:

The disk check could not be performed because the disk check utility needs exclusive access to some Windows files on the disk. These files can be accessed by restarting Windows. Do you want to schedule the disk check to occur the next time you restart the computer?

Click Yes to schedule the disk check, and then restart your computer to start the disk check.

Wait until Chkdsk finishes Checking / Repairing any faults
Windows will then either restart your computer or continue loading Normally.

Once back in Windows

Try Internet Explorer again

 

[Noobita]

i tried that but it didnt work

 

[kimsland]

Confirm any personal firewall is off
Test IE

Still issues, please continue.

Network Settings

Control Panel -> Network Connections

• Right click on your Network Icon and select:
• Properties
• Double click TCP/IP
• Obtain IP address Automatically
• Obtain DNS Automatically
• Ok
• Ok

Start -> Run -> InetWiz
Follow the prompts

Start Internet Explorer again

 

[DelJo63]

first thing is to see if your ISP configuration is correct
run->cmd /k ifconfig /all
you should get an IP address, a default gateway, a subnet mask and one or two DNS addresses.

you can test your NIC for proper operation with ping 127.0.0.1

 

[kimsland]

Actually a run commnd is good to know for ipconfig, thanks jobeard
but cmd /k ifconfig /all should be: cmd /k ipconfig /all
Just a spelling mistake (no: actually a linux command)

Start --> Run --> cmd /k ipconfig /all

Now if you could put on another switch that saves it to %userprofile%\Desktop\ipconfig.txt, that would be excellent.

 

[DelJo63]

oops; a mix of Linux ifconfig and MS ipconfig; sorry

 

[kimsland]

but in relation to copying to a txt file
How is that done? Is there a switch (ideally)

I'm always concerned, how do users copy the text to a post (without allowing edit)
The switch?

 

[kimsland]

jobeard I've done it

Start --> Run--> cmd /c ipconfig /all > "%UserProfile%\Desktop\ipconfig.txt" <OK>

I might use this all the time, what do you think ?
Yes ? No ?

Edit:

Noobita just attach the ipconfig.txt file (from Desktop) to a new Reply, if you decide to run the command above.

 

[DelJo63]

In Win/XP at least the run->cmd ... will start in %UserProfile%\ so any redirection to a file
(eg xxx >file.txt) will create %UserProfile%\file.txt

if you insist on the desktop location, then

run->cmd xxx >Desktop\file.txt​

would do

 

[kimsland]

Still waiting on Noobita

cmd /c ipconfig /all >Desktop\ipconfig.txt

Works !

I never knew that desktop goes straight to Desktop
How does Windows know I don't mean c:\desktop (but it does know) That's very strange.
It's not even an enviroment variable, but it still knows !
I've been using %userprofile%\desktop for years for nothing (except Dos - I think)

Thank-you jobeard, I really thought I knew more! such a fool I am.

 

[DelJo63]

I never knew that desktop goes straight to Desktop
How does Windows know I don't mean c:\desktop (but it does know) That's very strange.
It's not even an enviroment variable, but it still knows !

on xp, there's no c:\decktop; it's all relative to
\documents and settings\$yourlogin-id$\
which is the %UserProfile% variable (%UserProfile% = %SystemDrive%\documents and settings\$yourlogin-id$\ )
and that's where Desktop\, My Documents\, and Favorites\ all reside