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Programs having trouble recognizing an internet connection.
So the other day I decided to system restore to my laptops factory settings. Everything went smoothly and now it runs great! However, although I am able to connec t to the internet, browse on Firefox and download stuff some of my programs will not work. Skype does not want to connect, DirectX, when I try to install it, tells me it needs an internet connection to continue (this was seconds after downloading the installer) as well as Firefox extensions not loading when I try to view them in the browser. Some windows updates failed to install as well.
I've spent the last few hours googling, and poking around my laptop to try and figure it out but to no avail. I did find one thread (that led me here) that had roughly the same problem, but not being very tech savvy I had questions and with the thread being half a year old I chose to start a new one. I would truly appreciate ANY help I could get. But again, I'm kinda dumb when it comes to this stuff so I made need more then "check your dns" and all that. I have no idea how to do that.