IE will not open?

My internet explorer quit working a few weeks ago. Windows xp connection wizard says connection ok, but I can't get to any site.

Yahoo messenger does load up and I can also see gmail loading on the gmail notifier, but can't open it.

What's the deal. I've tried system restore to a previous date without avail.

Also, I would rather not uninstall and have to format the drive as I don't know where the cd is.

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Hi,

if you have a firewall running in the computer, try disabling it, or if you have the windows firewall, disable it and test, probably is blocking the http access.

good luck

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What's your connection type?

My IE stopped working once when I still had 56k connection, turned out I had a trojan that hogged all my bandwidth.

I think it was called brontoc or something.
you're lucky. ie is always trying to innapropriately open on my computer, try as i might to only use firefox.