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Daif On a PC or laptop in Win 7 go to control Panel and, Network and Internet Right-click your connection to open the properties Select TCP/IP v4 Properties There you can select either “Obtain DNS server automatically” or specify an address. The default is “obtain automatically” so likely...

Daif, I finally resolved my problem by re-installing Windows (actually 'upgrading' it so as to avoid having to re-install all my applications). So it was definitely a windows corruption in my case. Yours is different I think. Could it be your laptop and smartphone are set to use a different DNS...

I've run spybot and Trend micro full scan already but I'll take a look at the KB stuff about IE Thanks for the ideas

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I’ve tried “obtain automatically” and setting it to google (8.8.8.8. and 8.8.4.4) It makes no difference to the behaviour The same settings are returned but ipconfig in both Win7 and the XP VM

My Win7 64 bit pro laptop has lost the ability to resolve urls. Literal IP addresses still work in a browser address bar You can use DNSlookup etc successfully from a command prompt You can ping from a command prompt MS Virtual machine is installed and from within XP mode the browsers work fine...

Curtis, I don't have a solution. But, I'd like to know what worked for you if you got it going again in the end. I have the exact same issue on the same type of machine (Dell laptop Win7 64bit). I too have tried everything I can thing of, including: re-booted my router. re-booted my laptop...