Can't open .org.uk websites :(

[trogg]

OK, not sure if it’s a Vista problem but here goes ,
A few months ago I found out that I couldn’t get any .org.uk websites to open.
'.org' work ok, but not '.org.uk .'
I’ve asked everybody I know but …:confused2:

Running Vista home premium, and internet explorer

Hope you can help

 

[Wolfeymole]

Give us a url to the last .org.uk site you visited Trogg and we'll have a look.

 

[trogg]

Hi Wolfeymole,

these are the last few I've been trying to get on...


http://www.britishlegion.org.uk/
http://www.landlords.org.uk/
http://www.bebirmingham.org.uk/

But It's every .org.uk website that I,m unable to get on, just get this message ...
Internet Explorer cannot display the webpage



Getting very frustrating, because the mrs is going into teaching and about half the websites she tries to go on are .org.uk

Should I get a new computer or get a new mrs ?

 

[Goku]

Hello and Welcome to FPCH Trogg

Should I get a new computer or get a new mrs ?

There is no need for either as there is a simpler solution out there.

Try using an alternate browser like Mozilla Firefox? It might be that Internet Explorer does not support the org.uk domains.

Whatever be the reason, try the sites in Firefox and see if they load in it or not. Good Luck.

-- Goku

 

[trogg]

Cheers Goku

Downloaded and tried Firefox, but am getting this message...

'Connection Interrupted

The document contains no data.

The network link was interrupted while negotiating a connection. Please try again'

Also tried Google Chrome a couple of weeks ago, with the same result.

I'm sure something on my computer is stopping me getting these websites.

 

[RandyL]

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[trogg]

Thanks RandyL,

Tried, but still no luck. although it did find over 60 problems, and sorted them

Could it be that my computer dosn't recognise .org.uk websites ?

thanks, kev

ps; havn't done anything with system restore at the moment.

 

[Seth]

See if you can access the sites through Safe Mode With Networking.

Keep tapping F8 as soon as you turn on the computer and a start up menu will appear. Use the arrow keys to choose the mode and press enter.

 

[trogg]

See if you can access the sites through Safe Mode With Networking.

Keep tapping F8 as soon as you turn on the computer and a start up menu will appear. Use the arrow keys to choose the mode and press enter.

YES YES YES with bits in

Did what you said, everything turned BIG , on my desktop, so I opened a unrelated website, typed in a .org.uk website into the address bar, and it opened ......

But It was very big and nasty......


So what do I do now ?

 

[Seth]

Excellent.

The fact that the sites are fine in Safe Mode, indicate that either your antivirus or firewall are blocking those sites. What do you use for each?

Go into normal mode and disable one at a time, then test those sites.

 

[trogg]

Hi Seth


Got rid of my antivirus a few days ago, the only thing I have running is Windows firewall, which I've turned off, and Windows defender, which I think I turned off

Still having the same problem

 

[Wolfeymole]

What anti virus did you have Trogg?

 

[trogg]

hello Wolfeymole,

had BullGuard and AVG antivirus, also had Ad-Aware

cheers, kev

 

[trogg]

sorted
Thanks guys

I could tell by how quite my thread had gone, that I’d hit the proverbial ‘brick wall’.
So I had decided that I had had enough , got together a stack of DVD writeables and my start-up disc that came with the computer.

I was going to wipe the computer clean and start again.
Then I thought ‘one last try’ (again) it must be something simple, something I’ve overlooked.

I read through all your messages again, and the only thing I could think of is that there must be a antivirus program I’ve missed, although as far as I could see, I had deleted them all.

Anyway, to cut a long story short, alt-ctrl-Delete, opened up Windows task manager, clicked on ‘services’ , then click on ‘services’ on the bottom right, and what do I find ? , Bullguard , Windows Defender, Windows Firewall and STOPzilla were all still running .

I stopped them all, and tried one of the .org.uk websites, hey presto, it works .

I started the programmes again, one by one, and it turned out that it was ’STOPzilla’ that was causing my problems.

Thanks again for all your help, I am now officially, an expert, going to put my lump hammer back into the toolbox now.

Now could anybody tell me why Windows media player wont work ?

 

[Wolfeymole]

You need to uninstall stopzilla then go to Microsoft and see if there are any new updates.

What version of WMP are you using?

 

[Seth]

The fact that the sites are fine in Safe Mode, indicate that either your antivirus or firewall are blocking those sites.

Anyway, to cut a long story short, alt-ctrl-Delete, opened up Windows task manager, clicked on ‘services’ , then click on ‘services’ on the bottom right, and what do I find ? , Bullguard , Windows Defender, Windows Firewall and STOPzilla were all still running .

I stopped them all, and tried one of the .org.uk websites, hey presto, it works

Good job.

Get rid of all that crap and read this;

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