Bizarre browser woes

DoneADougalOnSofa · 21 Nov 2018 at 19:56

Hi folks, me again. Not having a good week of it...

So, I got my fresh-install driver issues out of the way, but now have a new problem.

The only web browser that works is Edge. Both Chrome and Opera refuse to connect to any sites at all. They work fine in my housemate's user profile, but not mine.
I've tried all the suggested fixes online (netsh. reset commands, clearing logs, ensuring firewall permissions,defaulting everything etc) but to no avail...
Everything else is working properly, I can download from Steam or seemingly anywhere else, but cannot surf on either browser.

If anyone has any clues, I'd be eager to hear them. I hate Edge...

PiKe · 21 Nov 2018 at 20:08

Can you not just reset windows and start again ?

DoneADougalOnSofa · 21 Nov 2018 at 20:33

It's a total clean install anyway!
Having reinstalled Windows half a dozen times in two days, I'm anxious not to do it again if I can avoid it... Particularly the 1803 update, which took almost 4 hours to install.
Odd thing is they work in another user profile. Odd...

PiKe · 21 Nov 2018 at 20:41

What version are you updating from? Download the 1803 iso from Microsoft using the tool.

Your machine should not be behaving this way, windows is fickle sometimes but never this bad.

DoneADougalOnSofa · 21 Nov 2018 at 20:54

It's been one of those weeks. I might try my old trick of ignoring the problem for a week or two. I can deal with Edge I guess.

Maybe some new update somewhere will make a difference. I can't be dealing with any more nonsense for a week or two or there'll be a PC-shaped hole in my window soon...

Deleted member 77746 · 21 Nov 2018 at 20:58

Are you 100% sure it’s the latest ISO file from Microsoft?

Download the latest version and install it again. Problems like this have existed for a long time I still see the same problems on here been asked time n time again for years!

DoneADougalOnSofa · 22 Nov 2018 at 01:52

mrbell1984 said:
Are you 100% sure it’s the latest ISO file from Microsoft?

Download the latest version and install it again. Problems like this have existed for a long time I still see the same problems on here been asked time n time again for years!

Sigh... I guess that'll probably have to happen.

Had the media creation tool still sat in my downloads from a couple of months ago.
I ran it, and made a USB... I assume it can't have been the latest version if it had to download a huge update!
Just hoped someone had a magic bullet. Hey ho.

Cheers folks.

benjii · 22 Nov 2018 at 10:23

DoneADougalOnSofa said:
Sigh... I guess that'll probably have to happen.

Had the media creation tool still sat in my downloads from a couple of months ago.
I ran it, and made a USB... I assume it can't have been the latest version if it had to download a huge update!
Just hoped someone had a magic bullet. Hey ho.

Cheers folks.

A friend had the exact same problem on a fresh install. A quick google shows complaints of this issue going back as far as 2012. After a lot of troubleshooting, my best guess is that windows defender and/or firewall is doing something to Chrome. I had success when disabling them. A lot of the googled threads had a similar issue where malware bytes was preventing Chrome working, hence why I looked at the Windows security options.

DoneADougalOnSofa · 22 Nov 2018 at 23:29

It's only in my main profile though. Housemate's fine, so I've just set up a new local profile and am in the process of installing everything else and using that account instead

Deleted member 77746 · 23 Nov 2018 at 20:12

DoneADougalOnSofa said:
It's only in my main profile though. Housemate's fine, so I've just set up a new local profile and am in the process of installing everything else and using that account instead

You should have installed with the latest version again. Wouldn't have took long unless you only on dial up.

APM · 24 Nov 2018 at 16:45

Proxy setting turned off?

DoneADougalOnSofa · 24 Nov 2018 at 19:10

mrbell1984 said:
You should have installed with the latest version again. Wouldn't have took long unless you only on dial up.

I know.
But having spent two days reinstalling six times, I am going to leave it a week or two.
I have a workable if not ideal solution, and I'd like to actually do something with my PC other than swear at it!

DoneADougalOnSofa · 24 Nov 2018 at 19:12

APM said:
Proxy setting turned off?

Yeah. I've checked everything checkable, done everything suggested by Google-fu, but no change.

Duke · 25 Nov 2018 at 20:08

I take it you've done hardware tests for cpu, memory and hard disks if you've had to re-install 6 times and still having issues?

DoneADougalOnSofa · 26 Nov 2018 at 10:02

It's all fine. The reinstalls were down to installing Vega drivers without an essential Windows update first. Bluescreens and bootloops.

It was solely down to that. No hardware issues!