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No internet connection but Skype works
Hello,
Two days ago my computer gave me a blue screen of death (not the first time). Ever since that restart my internet says I'm connected but nothing can access the internet (Except for skype), the fingerprint sensor also does not work anymore. I thought it may be a hardware issue but system scans say everything is fine and with skype working it leads be to believe that it's not a hardware issue. I looked through all the forums and google results but none of the fixes seem to fix my problem.
I have reset the winsock, tried a public DNS, turned use a proxy on in internet options, I have the same problem when I take my laptop into work and connect wired or wireless to that network as well (fixed IP or dynamic) so it's not the ISP, I cannot ping anything neither google.com nor localhost, Windows troubleshoot solution does not find any errors, and the error reporting or windows update cannot connect to the internet. Torrents, Browsers(Firefox,IE(both 64bit and 32bit),Chrome), Mail, Windows, Microsoft Security Essentials cannot connect either; only skype seems to work.
I use MSE so I don't have any other antivirus or malware program running. I was watching a replay of a game off the internet and also had started an update of Adobe CS5 (the blue screen came about 15min into the game) so I wasn't sure if Adobe finished. Since that was the only thing I had newly installed or changed before having the problem, I have uninstalled the entire Adobe CS5 suite and still no fix.
Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit was upgraded from Vista on the computer over a year ago no problems. I unfortunately turned off system restore a long time ago and forgot to turn it back on (set the space limit to zero), so I can't perform a restore, and so the only option I can see is a format which I really really would like to avoid.
If anyone knows of a fix that I have overlooked on the forum please point me to the right direction or if you have any ideas on how to fix it THANKS.