Why does Internet Explorer sometimes fail to connect to anything until I restart it?
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Mar 15, 202623126 viewsConfidence Score0%
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IE has an annoying problem on my PC (XP SP3). I start it and try to go to Google (for example) and it'll sit there saying "Connecting" but nothing will happen and it doesn't matter how many times I try, it won't connect to anything. I discovered that if I kill IE and restart it then it might start …
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Fix for: Why does Internet Explorer sometimes fail to connect to anything until I restart it?
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Most likely you have the "Automatically detect settings" option selected in -> Internet Options -> connections. It goes out and tries to decide on its own the best way to get you to the internet. It can get hung up for a while trying to find a proxy…
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