borrow-a-geek

ok new info: i am currently connected from the vista machine to my XP machine VIA RemoteDesktop. so we dont have an issue with the networking side of things. im going to go out on a limb here and say that this is a winsock problem but that's where i need help. does anyone know if the windows XP winsock and the Vista winsock are the same? or are they completely different. my guess is since ipv6 is pushed so heavily in vista that it is entirely different, but i need clarification on this

well as i said i am able to connect to my router's gui but not the internet (through a browser) pinging is fine full replies from google.com and the wireless card is an intel 802.11g (dont recall the exact model) just seems odd to me that it pings with a problem but not browsing. now one thing i have not tryed is browsing by ip address. if i am able to browse by ip address then it is definately a DNS thing. i will try that an post my results. as far as the release and renew. did it so many times im blue in the face ipconfig /release ipconfig /renew did a netsh to flush the dns cache and also removed and reinstalled the wireless nic.. thanks for the quick reply :-) Geek ok per my above post: not able to surf by ip either. also google is added to my trusted sites list :-(

bloatware in my opinion is using more resources than it needs. however it does, at first glance appear to be bloatware, due to the slow speed at which it runs. i installed it on a p4 2.66 Mhz laptop w/512MB ram and 512Kb L2 cache. and it runs horribly slow. the security features are almost a necessity for the novice users that try to mess with settings without knowing what they do. and for the advance users you can simply go to the users applet in the control panel and disable the user controls. i think the UI is probably the best part of it so far, but lets face it if it was a cool theme i wanted i could have easily done that without all the extras. in my business i repair end users computers when they break or malfunction so unfortunately i am forcing myself to learn the way of functioning in vista. i feel like i am learning a whole new OS again almost! very frustrating especially when it runs so d*** slow! hopefully they will streamline things a bit in the end product for a faster running OS.

ive search all the posts in here and google alike, with no avail. i did an upgrade install of vista beta 2 on my laptop. the ethernet drivers were unavailable but the wireless drivers were there. i was able to connect to my access point (router) and able to browse the router GUI. the connection says im connected to the internet and im able to ping google.com. however i cannot browse the web through IE7 or through Firefox. i have disable the protected mode and lowered the security settings as low as i can but still no surfing. (i dont have any 3rd party firewalls installed. ) now had this been XP, i would simply conclude that this this is a winsock problem and fix it with lspfix.exe and winsockfix.exe ((both available at www.cexx.org ) but since it is vista, im a little intimidated by this small but important problem, and furthermore I'm not entirely sure the winsock is the same type or compatiblity. any help would be greatly appreciated. ( i have a low post count but i am a reader and a lurker and been a memeber for some time :-) ) thanks