IE7 Beta Internet Connection Problem
February 9th, 2006
I installed IE7 Beta and started to browse the internet. As I did, IE repeatedly dialed to connect to the internet for each item on the page. My LAN was already connected.
I told IE7 not to dial and it worked fine. Now other applications that rely in IE’s connection think they are offline. Windows Media Player will not stream because it thinks it’s offline.
It appears this is IE7’s problem because I have never experienced it before. Does anyone have a solution?
I also reported this to the good folks at the IE blog but thought I would seek an answer here as well.
Edit: A possible fix for the problem is here.
Edit: This connection problem is still preventing my error reporting agent from sending the needed reports to Microsoft. I also still have to tell IE to ignore the fact it thinks it is offline on occasion. It could be something is wrong with my connection settings, but I’m unable to find anything that should be corrected.
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1. Harvey Ramer | February 9th, 2006 at 6:02 pm
Ok. The Windows Media Player connection problem was resolved by changing my WMP connection settings under Tools > Options > Player Settings.
I still have a problem running SharpReader with IE7. I assume that it’s because of some architectural changes in IE and that there is tight integration between SharpReader and IE.
Perhaps IE is being a bit predatory on competition? No, that’s probably not fair … but allegations are always fun!