Cannot get to the internet

[brian]

I uninstalled Wingate, now I cannot get to the internet. Every WEB page is still going to 127.0.0.1. I can get email. I am using windows XP home.
I used the control panel--> add/remove programs. It said it uninstalled successfully.

[Pascal]

I uninstalled Wingate, now I cannot get to the internet. Every WEB page is still going to 127.0.0.1. I can get email. I am using windows XP home.
I used the control panel--> add/remove programs. It said it uninstalled successfully.

When you were using WinGate, were you using proxies ? If so, double check that you're not pointed to the local machine in Internet Explorer (Or whichever browser you are using)

[brian]

I uninstalled Wingate, now I cannot get to the internet. Every WEB page is still going to 127.0.0.1. I can get email. I am using windows XP home.
I used the control panel--> add/remove programs. It said it uninstalled successfully.

When you were using WinGate, were you using proxies ? If so, double check that you're not pointed to the local machine in Internet Explorer (Or whichever browser you are using)

I checked all of that, even uninstalled and reinstalled Internet Explorer. It left something in the internet files. From what I see it is something Hard coded..

[Pascal]

I checked all of that, even uninstalled and reinstalled Internet Explorer. It left something in the internet files. From what I see it is something Hard coded..

There are two additional places to check then:

1. Search in the windows\system32\drivers folder for QbikHkXP.sys. That file should not exist

2. Check in the registry to see that HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Qbik Software\WinGate does not exist.

If neither of those are present, the uninstall was successful and it's all good. Then, I'd check that your internet connection / etc. settings are still 100%. XP (In combination with the Network Setup Wizard) does some strange things at odd times - such as setting the "Never Dial a Connection", etc. setting and so on.

Other than that, check the Hosts file, but WinGate does not modify that - so it would have had to be something else then.

[genie]

Make sure that you have valid adapters and routing table:
ipconfig /all
route print

make sure that routing table has 0.0.0.0 (default route) set.