Solution: IE8 does not connect to the Internet

There are many complaints that IE8 (a recent automatic upgrade) does not connect to the Web, ie cannot access any website.

People have been dismantling their Firewalls, virus checkers but no success. Happily there is Firefox so we can browse for a solution.

Here is the solution that worked for me:-

in IE8 go to Tools->Internet Options->Advanced

and click on both Restore Advanced Settings and Reset Internet Explorer settings, you might want to see if pressing just the Advanced Button is good enough.

Then restart IE8

This warns that you about to lose all your settings but that was no no problem for me as I have very few, being mostly a Firefox or Opera person

Hope that Helps

Opera's Wonderful Search Engine List
Opera has many innovative features. I love the ability to type say
"g mysql" into the address bar and directly search Google, without the need to go to Google first. Opera comes with a set of these search engine shortcuts already set up.
But I've also learned how to set up my own eg Wikipedia where I type "wk columbus" to search for Columbus.

Today I've learned how easy it is to set these up, go to your favorite search engine say to search for a description of a PHP function, right-mouse click in the Search Box and choose "Create Search" name the search say "php" you can now type say
"php ucfirst" into your Opera URL/Address bar to directly access the PHP page on ucfirst.

You can also highlight the text on any webpage and send it to the search engine of your choice (right-mouse click to select Search Engine)!!