[Solved] connection woes

[tismehi]

i got my son a new laptop recently so i decided to use his old desktop as a lounge media pc. i connected it and updated all my usuals, avg, windows, super anti, malwarebytes, etc. i then connected it to my music which is on a portable hard drive and a new sonos system that i got recently. all worked lovely. i then tried to connect this pc and two laptops to my home network using home group. i then downloaded firefox as my son was using chrome and i'm used to firefox. as part of mozilla firefox i always use speed dial as my home page and as i was configuring this the pc lost broadband connectivity. it remains connected to the router ok. i changed ethernet cables, switched sockets and restarted the router just in case. all my other devices connect without any trouble. smart tv, wireless printer, homeplug network device, and 4 laptops. it still refuses to connect to the internet using firefox or ie.

the machine is a packard bell, 500gb hdd, 4gb ram, dual core intel, windows 7.

when i try to connect using either browser i get a message stating the proxy server is refusing connections. i wonder is there maybe a problem with the firewall. i say this as when i was connecting the sonos system, i got a message that sonos needs to change something or other with the firewall - although it all worked well enough for a few hours after installation.

[seedy21]

Hi tismehi

 

Instructions

 

 

• Click on the "Start" button on the bottom left hand side of the window.
  
• Click on the "Control Panel" option.
  
• Click on the "Network and Internet Connections" option.
  
• Click on the "Internet Options" option.
  
• Click on the "Connections" tab at the top of the "Internet Properties" window.
  
• Click on the "LAN Settings" option at the bottom of the box.
  
• Uncheck the box under the "Proxy Server" option and click on "OK".
  
• Close out of all of the windows. The next time that you start Windows XP, the proxy settings will be disabled.
  

Read more: http://www.ehow.com/how_6310915_disable-proxy-settings-xp.html#ixzz2ZiLEcwDN

Edited July 21, 2013 by seedy21

[tismehi]

simple, effective and correct - thank you so much.

[seedy21]

Glad to hear your up and running again :)

 

I will mark this as solved

[KenB]

simple, effective and correct - thank you so much.

He's not bad is he :)

 

Nice one Seedy21 [ATTACH=CONFIG]1052.vB5-legacyid=1978[/ATTACH]

[seedy21]

He's not bad is he :)

 

Nice one Seedy21 [ATTACH=CONFIG]1978[/ATTACH]

 

Thank you very much :D

[Plastic Nev]

Now don't let that go to your head mate, there is more work to be done yet

 

Nev.

[seedy21]

Now don't let that go to your head mate, there is more work to be done yet

 

Nev.

 

Agreed, am here helping people when i should start on fixing my own computer .........