IE7 & WMP Internet Connection Fix

February 27th, 2006

I did some quick research at MSN.com (Why didn’t I do this earlier?) after my post on my IE7 internet connection problem started to get some traffic. Of course, I found the fix to connecting over a LAN with IE7 posted clearly for all to see here. I quote the relevant text below:

Internet Connection Settings - If you notice a problem connecting to web sites, it may be due to the upgrade changing your Internet Explorer 6 Internet Connection settings. To rectify the problem, take the following steps:

1. Launch the Internet Control Panel by clicking “Internet Options” from the Internet Explorer Tools menu.
2. Navigate to the Connections tab
3. For each connection in the “Dialup and Virtual Private Networks” list, click the “Settings” button
4. Verify that “Automatically detect settings” is checked. If not check it
5. Click the “Lan Settings” button in the Connections tab, and repeat step 4 6. Click OK on the Connections tab.
6. Close IE and restart it.

Hopefully this will fix the problem. It seems Microsoft made a major change in how the internet connection is configured.

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