autopia car care forums...

[rwright]

It works with Vista, I'm using it right now. You need to turn off User Account Control. Click Start--Control Panel--click User Accounts and Family Safety title--click User Accounts title--click Turn User Account Control On or Off. After you turn this off try to launch the command prompt again and run that command. I really hope this works for you after all this!

[rwright]

No dice here either. I'm going to try my Firefox browser and see if that works.

I thought you already tried other browsers?

[Bates Detailing]

Wow - just checked out Autopia - very nice looking forum

[_Raven]

If you are using vista or win 7 and you receive the elevation message:

Click Start and in the Search bar type "CMD".

Once the search returns the CMD result, right click on the entry and choose "Run As Administrator".

A command window will open with elevated priveledges and you can run the necessary commands. A few to try:

nbtstat -R
ipconfig /flushdns *then* ipconfig /registerdns

Edit: you can also attempt to use a different DNS server in your testing. A few public servers are:

4.4.4.4
4.4.8.8
4.2.2.1

To change your DNS settings:

Start > Control Panel > Network and Internet > Network and sharing center > Manage network connections

Right click your local area network connection and choose 'Properties'.

Click the 'Networking' tab and then 'Internet Protocol version 4 (ipv4)'

You will see an area to specify DNS settings. To manually set a server, click 'Use the following DNS server addresses' and enter one of the addresses above.

Save your settings and exit all windows. Then try the forums again.

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[Hoytman]

I thought you already tried other browsers?

In post number 11 I said that I had other browsers. I hadn't tried them until a minute ago. Firefox will open the home page, but not the forum itself. I'll try your other suggestion next.

[C. Charles Hahn]

In post number 11 I said that I had other browsers. I hadn't tried them until a minute ago. Firefox will open the home page, but not the forum itself. I'll try your other suggestion next.

When you say "the home page," what home page are you referring to?

Autopia Car Care Products - Car Detailing Supplies, Car Wax, Car Polishers, Auto Detailing

or

Autopia Forums - Auto Detailing & Car Discussion Forum

[Hoytman]

It works with Vista, I'm using it right now. You need to turn off User Account Control. Click Start--Control Panel--click User Accounts and Family Safety title--click User Accounts title--click Turn User Account Control On or Off. After you turn this off try to launch the command prompt again and run that command. I really hope this works for you after all this!

I did this and then tried the prompts given in your post number 14. It said it was succesful, but I still could access the forum.

I had to click on a checked box, as there was no off/on. It just said it was on at the top off the page and I assumed unchecking the box would work. It promted me to restart when I unchecked it.

Won't I need to go back and make sure to check the box again? I assume the box has been checked for who knows how long and that it should be rechecked to go back to previous settings.

When you say "the home page," what home page are you referring to?

Autopia Car Care Products - Car Detailing Supplies, Car Wax, Car Polishers, Auto Detailing

I can get to the above link, but when I click on the forum tab to open the forum it will not open the page. It's white and blank forever until it says it can't make the connection.

[Hoytman]

It still doesn't make sense that I can open every other forum I get on, except for autopia car care.

[Hoytman]

Are you using a cable modem of some sort? You might want to power cycle the modem.

It's DSL and I turned the power box off/on and still no dice. I guess it's not meant for me to view that forum.

[_Raven]

What is the exact error code that is returned?

Also, please try the custom DNS settings I detailed in my previous post. The forum link is different than the main page, and service providers can sometimes have corrupted DNS entries.

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