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Bowen747x
02-11-2004, 02:42 PM
does anybody no if the hosts file could b preventing me from accessing the internet all 2gether, i called me internet provider and they did some pinging tests and told me that the internet was working fine, and the guy on th phone had me do a search on hosts and 10 files came up 4 it and he told me he cant tell me 2 do anything w/ them 4 liability reasons but told me that was probably y i cant access the net, im at school right now and wil b leaving in 4-5 hours and cant acces this site aftr that so thnx 4 any help.

ps, im goin 2 try aldos tools w/ the hosts manager, any1 no if that will help.

jessshaun
02-11-2004, 03:21 PM
It's not the hosts file... I've had this problem before. The only thing that helped me was use system restore to restore to a point BEFORE the problem occured.

jessshaun
02-11-2004, 03:24 PM
But... if you want to try it...

try putting a # symbol before the entries he gave you, and see what that does, if you believe that is preventing you from accessing the net.

All the # sybol does is comment the entries out. They will still be there, but Windows will ignore them.

Bowen747x
02-11-2004, 04:41 PM
i think a system restore would work, ill have 2 go try that

EDIT: thnx a lot man that wrk perfectly! :01:

jessshaun
02-12-2004, 01:40 AM
anytime. B)