Re: Parallels: Explorer won't connect to internet

2010-02-04 Thread David Hudleston
Hi Neil, I have followed your instruction and everything checks out down to level 4. However when I try to connect to Windows update, Explorer comes back with the message: website found, waiting for reply (at bottom of screen) then Internet Explorer cannot display the web page I used

Re: Parallels: Explorer won't connect to internet

2010-02-04 Thread Ronda Brown
Hello David, I hope Neil doesn't mind me butting in here, but I remember a client having a similar problem and I located that Zone Alarm was causing this. If you are running Zonealarm, Set the Internet security setting in Zonealarm to Medium. Navigate to the ZoneAlarm Firewall panel Click on

Re: Parallels: Explorer won't connect to internet

2010-02-04 Thread Peter Hinchliffe
On 05/02/2010, at 8:15 AM, Ronda Brown wrote: Hello David, I hope Neil doesn't mind me butting in here, but I remember a client having a similar problem and I located that Zone Alarm was causing this. If you are running Zonealarm, Set the Internet security setting in Zonealarm to

Re: Parallels: Explorer won't connect to internet

2010-02-04 Thread Ronda Brown
Oh yeah, don't use Kapersky Firewall! In fact uninstall Kapersky ... fast! Install the latest AVG Anti-Virus 'Free Edition'. http://free.avg.com Cheers, Ronni On 05/02/2010, at 9:20 AM, David Hudleston wrote: Thanks for all your help. I solved the problem by turning off Kapersky

Parallels: Explorer won't connect to internet

2010-02-03 Thread David Hudleston
I recently upgraded to Parallels 5 to run a program in Windows XP. Everything worked before the upgrade Now Parallels connects for software updates but Explorer won't connect. Navigating Windows is a mystery to me. Any ideas? The Parallels 5 also runs much slower than Parallels 4. I am

Re: Parallels: Explorer won't connect to internet

2010-02-03 Thread Neil Houghton
Hi David, Others may come at this from a different direction, but I like to look at it in layers, starting at the outside and working in: 1. Computer/Mac OSX 2. Parallels software/VM configuration 3. Windows OS 4. Windows software Level 1 is obviously OK since your are accessing the internet,