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Trouble connecting new laptop to the internet

Hi, i have a wireless network set up at home using a belkin 54g router. At the moment i have two desktop pc's which i can connect to the internet with. However i have just bought a new laptop which is wireless enabled and am having trouble with connecting to the internet. It detects my wireless network and says its connected with excellent signal strength but when i open the internet it says "cannot display webpage as you are not connected to the internet". Can anyone help me out as i'm a bit of an idiot when it comes to things like this. the laptop is using windows vista if that helps. Many thanks

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I had this problem exactly - go to the microsoft websit for errors and trouble shooting - had to do with anti virus scanning - It has something to do with files found in a system folder that should not be there - Microsoft s solution was to delete the files (yes this made me nervous too) so I copied everything to a folder then deleted the files - closed everything up -did a quick restart and rebooting of modem and router and opened up a new connection and no poblems

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When you put the mouse over the network icon in your taskbar, it will say access: Local & Internet or local only.

if Local & internet you have a connection to the internet, if local only then open internet explorer, tools, internet options, connections and check that there is no default connection, it should be never dial a conection thats ticked or greyed out.

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Hi! Did you go into the router configuration through IE (Internet Explorer)?
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