(cross-post added to Vista Networking)
Scott Gross wrote in message
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I have the same problem on Vista Ultimate. My internet connection is fine.
Outlook still sends and receives mail with no problems and I can ping www.yahoo.com.
Restarting IE7 does not work for me. i have to re-boot the entire system.

I have even tried to disable and re-enable the TCP/IP connection,

Explain? How are you testing what you do?
Do you have a local proxy? Disabling the external link
would not necessarily break any connections established with it.


but only a re-boot will get it working again. I can sometimes use IE7
for several hours before this problem occurs.


I suspect that you still haven't identified the essential details
about your symptoms. For example, another user complaining
about a similar symptom discovered that an option of his security
package was apparently acting as an unexpected proxy and
all its residual connections showed up using netstat:

http://groups.google.com/group/micro...68f089ccddf0ef

Subject: IE7 Hangs
Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2007 10:58:50 -0400


EggHeadCafe - .NET Developer Portal of Choice
http://www.eggheadcafe.com

BTW I am having to resort to Google Groups instead of the MS Communities
links that I would normally prefer to use because nobody bothered to vote
for any of the posts in that discussion. Hence it got aged out of the
Communities archive. ; ] Perhaps your EggHeadCafe archive still has
that discussion in a more readable form than Google Groups?

Also, I have no experience with Vista. In case there are any better
diagnostics in it than the netstat and tasklist commands I suggested,
I am cross-posting to the Vista Networking NG.


HTH

Robert Aldwinckle
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