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General Computer Support / Re: gmail alternative

« on: June 30, 2015, 05:50:25 pm »

I have several email accounts. Google, Hotmail, Yahoo (don't use), several Road Runner accts. and my own domain. I channel all of these into Thunderbird. It's not hard to do and there's lots of online help. Pretty customizable as well. If you just want a different account, try Hotmail (Outlook) at outlook.com

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Tweaking.com Support & Help / Re: Website issue - Solved!

« on: June 29, 2015, 11:44:27 am »

Made my day too! Many thanks to you guys..... stop by - I'll buy lunch   

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Tweaking.com Support & Help / Re: Website issue

« on: June 29, 2015, 08:03:40 am »

I updated the nic driver and the websites work now! Who'd a thunk?

Success!

So if we analyze this.....  what do you think caused the trouble?
What messed up the nic driver?

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Tweaking.com Support & Help / Re: Website issue

« on: June 29, 2015, 07:48:15 am »

Yup was just looking at that   
Lets revisit the bios
First run of the tweaking.com software made a registry backup. It's still there even though I uninstalled and reinstalled the software. Do you think it would be worth a shot to restore it? I haven't done that yet. Remember though.....  2 days after the first run the level 2 tech got Windows updates working and I had an enormous amount of updates. 50-60 or so, might have a negative impact.

For some reason my system restore was turned off so I can't use that to go back. It's on with a restore point set now though.

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Tweaking.com Support & Help / Re: Website issue

« on: June 29, 2015, 07:31:38 am »

MB is an MSI 790FX - built this rig in 2010 (AMD Phenom X4 Processor)
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813130223

Realtec doesn't seem to list drivers for this onboard nic.... close though. Mine states it's a rtl8167
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813130223

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Tweaking.com Support & Help / Re: Website issue

« on: June 29, 2015, 07:15:23 am »

what driver version you have for your nic?

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Tweaking.com Support & Help / Re: Website issue

« on: June 29, 2015, 04:33:18 am »

Although I had done most of those already I did them again in the order you listed.
They all seemed to work except one

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netsh int ipv6 reset

Theres no user specified settings to reset
No change on the websites though   

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Tweaking.com Support & Help / Re: Website issue

« on: June 28, 2015, 07:58:12 pm »

Try typing this in command prompt this will reset all the Ports

netsh advfirewall reset

Did it as admin, rebooted too. No change.

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Tweaking.com Support & Help / Re: Website issue

« on: June 28, 2015, 05:16:45 am »

if you open up internet options and go to the security tab and click on restricted sites you will see the site's in there as well.

In my Internet options/Security those sites are listed under 'Trusted sites' not restricted sites.
I don't have any entries in the restricted sites area
I added the mass mutual entry trying to get access to it. Not sure how netflix got in there

BTW.... sent you a pm but for some reason it doesn't show up in my sent folder.....
Ok figured that out, there's a box to check.

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Tweaking.com Support & Help / Re: Website issue

« on: June 27, 2015, 06:19:53 am »

okay if you trust those sites you should be able to delete those websites from that registry key.
other than that i don't see it at the moment. next question what firewall do you use and do you use peerblock?

Oddly enough the mass mutual entry is one of the 3 that don't work. NetFlix does work and they are both in that key.
What is that key for? Asking before I change anything.

I only use Windows Firewall and my router has one as well.
I have tried turning Windows firewall off with no luck.
Router should be ok since other machines go through it just fine.
Never heard of peerblock before now so no I don't use it.

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Tweaking.com Support & Help / Re: Website issue

« on: June 26, 2015, 08:53:57 pm »

Here ya go

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Tweaking.com Support & Help / Re: Website issue

« on: June 26, 2015, 05:49:36 pm »

I unchecked the pure network entries and the link-layer entries. I believe this disables them. I then rebooted but no change.

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Tweaking.com Support & Help / Re: Website issue

« on: June 26, 2015, 02:58:18 pm »

The pure network entries are to do with Linksys routers which I use. Looking into it in more depth now. The service was disabled so I set to auto and rebooted. Linksys advisor works now which it didn't when I first tried it a short time ago. Will keep you posted.

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Tweaking.com Support & Help / Re: Website issue

« on: June 26, 2015, 07:50:10 am »

disregard

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Tweaking.com Support & Help / Re: Website issue

« on: June 26, 2015, 06:06:55 am »

Just completed running the software again in safe mode after a power down and rebooting when requested. I went through each optional step as well- chkdsk, etc..... I did not reset file permissions as that was done the first time so this run went pretty fast.

Sad news is the websites still will not connect.

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Tweaking.com Support & Help / Re: Website issue

« on: June 25, 2015, 06:19:49 pm »

Ok I will run the second time tomorrow am in safe mode. It's 9pm here now.
Is it normal for the software to turn off network discovery?

I think this is the shot you are looking for. If not let me know.

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Tweaking.com Support & Help / Re: Website issue

« on: June 25, 2015, 05:28:47 am »

For that one it looks like it is a https cert problem
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1058856
and
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1012765

See if the first one does the trick

Shane

Did this with no change. Problem remains

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Tweaking.com Support & Help / Re: Website issue

« on: June 25, 2015, 04:59:25 am »

Removed Panda AV reboot no change

As a point of interest. I was having an issue with windows update. Thats the reason I contacted Microsoft in the first place. One update had been failing for months. The update was to remove a prior update but I couldnt find the prior update to remove it myself. The level 2 tech did find it and remove it. Then there were 50 or 60 updates following that to get my system up to date.

Your software was run by the level one tech before the level 2 came on the scene. The level 1 did not run it in safe mode as I found out later was recommended.

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Tweaking.com Support & Help / Re: Website issue

« on: June 25, 2015, 04:48:29 am »

Unchecked and browser restarted. No change

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Tweaking.com Support & Help / Re: Website issue

« on: June 25, 2015, 04:37:12 am »

Quick question. Not sure what 'Enable protected mode' does but it's checked

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Tweaking.com Support & Help / Re: Website issue

« on: June 25, 2015, 04:34:17 am »

Here's what the other 2 sites look like - they finally timed out!

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Tweaking.com Support & Help / Re: Website issue

« on: June 25, 2015, 04:27:27 am »

Yea I did that already
I am going to try uninstalling all anti virus software and see what that does.

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Tweaking.com Support & Help / Re: Website issue

« on: June 25, 2015, 04:21:31 am »

I will check it out. Brief review makes me think that would be a fix for FF only? None of my browsers work
That would be better than I have now though. Other 2 sites are still trying to connect!

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Tweaking.com Support & Help / Re: Website issue

« on: June 25, 2015, 04:14:49 am »

It's a little after 7am here in NY....  Here's the financial site
 Unrelated-
As a work around for now I installed an add on called toggle proxy in FF and the sites in question work with the click of a button to switch proxy from none to whatever they supply. When using that proxy to visit this site (your site) It tells me that I am a robot trying to spam the internet!  lol

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Tweaking.com Support & Help / Re: Website issue

« on: June 25, 2015, 04:07:54 am »

Yea sure. It takes several minutes to time out. 2 of the sites are server connection reset or something similar. 3rd is a financial site and says something like - secure connection failed. Will get them for you.