why is vista so difficult to connect?

[adriana]

i'm trying to help my friend fix his computer because it recently stop allowing him to surf the net. i never used vista before so its giving me a headace:bang head. the computer connects to the internet but we are not able to surf. any tips on making this work? i'm running a modem->wrt54g->computer if that helps. been googling it but can't find any solution.

[ShadowPho]

At my house vista pointblank refuses to connect to my router. I tried a hella lots of things, and it still refuses. Thus there is no vista PCs in this house 'nymore. It just gave me a "Ping: error 1231 or 1232).

[adriana]

i am able to ping and everything but it does not want to work. i think i should tell him to upgrade to XP

[gangaskan]

what is the ip address settings? DNS or your gateway may be hozed up


also, any type of fire wall software on ? norton in particular ?

[adriana]

yup norton 360 was installed but i disabled it along with windows firewall and bit defender. well after hours of messing around i decided to install firefox and found out that firefox works and internet explorer does not!!! this is lame!! window messenger live does not work too but i believe it is related to internet explorer somehow?

[Trap05]

Uninstall the craptacular program known as Norton 360. Its even worse than Norton Internet Security for blowing up. Also why was there 2 antivirus programs installed?

[adriana]

Uninstall the craptacular program known as Norton 360. Its even worse than Norton Internet Security for blowing up. Also why was there 2 antivirus programs installed?

i have no idea. i uninstalled both and just went with the free avast.

[JamesXP]

I have had one vista computer, that wasn't even vista compatible, THERE WAS NO DRIVERS, BUT THE OEM RELEASED THE SYSTEM WITH VISTA?!?!


And then another vista laptop, Which was shameless, It would never connect properly, it was such a major PITA.



I think XP-Vista communication isn't something microsoft focused on, unfortunately.

[DatKidAJ]

yea i had the same problem with norton.. they have a removal program on there site that will remove all norton products

[surfasb]

yea i had the same problem with norton.. they have a removal program on there site that will remove all norton products

Any program that incrediblely difficult to uninstall is never worth the effort to install in the first place.

Seriously, if Norton's detection rate was as high as the system resources it requires, it would be at the top of the charts.

[Trap05]

lol that pretty much sums it up

[middydj]

Uninstall the craptacular program known as Norton 360. Its even worse than Norton Internet Security for blowing up. Also why was there 2 antivirus programs installed?


Soon as I saw the question asked and then the reply was"yes". Bingo! get that stuff off fast.. Its worthless.

[adriana]

hey guys it works now! your right it was norton 360. i used the tool that removed all the norton product and it works! woooooooooot!

[middydj]

Glad to hear hehe.