I can't access any website except for the home page on every browser on windows 7 and I have a connection?

[screechingbasket476]

Loading circle keeps spinning and I have internet connection. Fire fox comes to the home screen with the logo, but internet explorer goes to a blank page with address bar. I can't navigate to any website in any browser. I've ran avast boot time scan, malwarebytes and cccleaner and tdss killer. I've done a clean boot of the system. I've done system restore. I ran sfc scannow, which some problems that were detected it couldn't fix. I've ran disk clean up, which worked for a couple minutes, than the internet stopped running. I've done safe mode with networking and gone into network and sharing center and changed the preferred dns because someone on yahoo answers suggested that, but still nothing. What can I do now? I have a gateway e5700, intel Pentium processor, which I've had for several years. The internet and computer were working perfectly 2 days ago. Sometimes, windows explorer times out, and at first I couldn't even open network and sharing center, but clean boot seems to fix explorer problems, but not the internet. I've done the clean boot in msconfig. What do I do now? I'm familiar with computers, mediocre knowledge, but I'm no expert. And, I forgot to tell you, that I used to have this broadband network listed in network and sharing center, but that icon is not there any more. I just have LAN network. It says I have internet access on the computer. I've cleaned my cache and resetted each browser and routers too. This has been going on for a couple of days.

I even went to proxy server settings and unchecked that option and it did not work in Lan Settings, and I checked it and unchecked it again and restarted the computer, still not working.
I have windows 7 64 bit home premium. I do have google chrome too and safari. I've also already done a system restore. I forgot to mention that.

[Mark]

It's a tricky one and you don't mention what Operating System your using. But if it was working earlier you could try a System Restore. It won't delete any documents you have made it just rolls your computer back to a time previously.
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-GB/windo...em-restore

[Opsadaisy]

If it were me, I'd be booting from scratch. Meaning unplug everything and then boot modem first, followed by router etc. Then, if it doesn't work, I'd be calling the person I pay for internet service.

[Aura]

That happens with 32 bit machines running Windows 7 (in my experience at least) all the time. Solution? DON'T USE FIREFOX OR IE.

Hate to sound like a dick to Firefox, but Firefox is one of the worst browsers at the moment. Here's a pretty good general test of Chrome, IE, Firefox and (my personal favorite) Opera.

Although Opera actually doesn't seem to solve the problem whenever I have that proxy issues. You might have to download Chrome onto a USB from a different PC that has Windows 7 or 8/8.1 and plug it into your PC and put it on yours. Try to open that. If that doesn't work, sorry man, I got nothing.

Agh, sorry, if my solution doesn't work, try going BACK IN TIME using system restore. Go back to a few days before this happened to be totally sure.

[highrose132]

If all else fails you can do a system restore, I will provide a link for 7 instructions. I think maybe you played with network settings and forgot where you began? I believe that a restore will help, though if you're aware of a simple way to restore network settings to factory default, that might be easier.

Sometimes my win 7 will tell me I have a connection when I don't. It's not that they're lying to me, it's just that connection is relative. They see me connected to my router, whereas I consider being connected only if I can get online and check my email! So, first, and forgive me if you've already tried this. Go to your router, unplug the power from the wall, wait a minute, and then plug back in. Give it a few min to boot, go to your pc and clear your history and cache in your firefox (IE is the Devil) and then try again.