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[DennisD]

After the recent discussions I'm curious as to whether I'm the only one on this forum who can not get Opera to work.

It's a simple but unusual problem for a browser. The damn thing will not connect to the Internet.

Guys, don't waste your time with suggestions. I've tried absolutely everything that can be tried, and the Opera gods still look down upon me in anger.

Just curious.

[Icedrake]

That really sucks Dennis, not being able to make Opera work.

Teeny little tip, did you check if you're Offline?

[DennisD]

Thanks Icedrake, I appreciate your input, but this has been the situation for something like a year now, and I keep giving it an occasional try, but with no luck.

Even the Opera forum couldn't find a solution. (The last time I checked)

[Corona]

Other browsers work but Opera doesn't? That is reeeeeally weird. I'm no uber geek so I wouldn't even know where to begin with that.

[Anthony A]

Wonder what would happen if you reinstalled the operating system and started from scratch. Maybe you have already done that and still Opera doesn't work? That would be weird. Maybe it's not your computer at all maybe it's the ISP. That's stretching it but you have to start looking at the slightest possibilities now since you tried everything else.

[Humpty]

You've probably checked that it's allowed through your firewall.

Is there a portable opera version around that you could try?

[DennisD]

Yep, tried the portable one just recently Humpty.

Even tried launching it with AntiVirus and FireWall disabled, which was quite a safe thing to do because I couldn't get online.

I've really tried everything possible. I've reinstalled since it started happening, although not for this reason. I've obtained older versions of Opera, still no go.

And the most weird thing? When I first came here in 06, I tried Opera and it worked. That was the first and last time it did.

I really don't care now, but I'm curious to see if anyone else has encountered the same thing.

So far I seem to be the only one. I should get some sort of award, or maybe a booby prize.

[Corona]

Or you should have your PC exorcised.

[Anthony A]

DennisD, on May 23 2008, 08:50 PM, said:

I've really tried everything possible. I've reinstalled since it started happening, although not for this reason.

You reinstalled what? Windows or Opera?

[Andavari]

The only thing I can think of is to make sure Opera isn't using any Proxy in its network settings area, i.e.; allow it to have a direct connection to the Internet.

I don't remember what version it was but Opera all of a sudden stopped working with the ad proxy filtering software I was using, which ended up having me migrate to Firefox which turned out even better because AdBlock Plus is ten million times better than the old ad proxy filtering software I was using so I dumped that in favour of AdBlock Plus.

[DennisD]

Anthony A, on May 24 2008, 01:59 AM, said:

You reinstalled what? Windows or Opera?

I reinstalled Windows sometime around the middle of last year.

Andavari, on May 24 2008, 02:59 AM, said:

The only thing I can think of is to make sure Opera isn't using any Proxy in its network settings area, i.e.; allow it to have a direct connection to the Internet.

I don't remember what version it was but Opera all of a sudden stopped working with the ad proxy filtering software I was using, which ended up having me migrate to Firefox which turned out even better because AdBlock Plus is ten million times better than the old ad proxy filtering software I was using so I dumped that in favour of AdBlock Plus.

I've got a direct connection to the Internet, and almost every application I have that has a "check for update" feature, launches my broadband connection with no problems. Opera is the only one that will not connect. Pretty cool for a Browser.

I've also tried every other browser that I've ever seen mentioned on here. And no problems.

I also tried Humpty's suggestions this morning. Flush DNS and LSP Fix. The latter finding no problems.

Give up chaps, I have. But I'm still curious to see if I'm the only one who has a unique, collectors item Browser; a Web Surfer that refuses to go into the water.

[CTskifreak]

This is one strange predicament. I could only wonder what would be stopping it.

Whoa, you cleared 2000 posts Dennis. WOW

AJ

[DennisD]

CTskifreak, on May 24 2008, 04:54 PM, said:

This is one strange predicament. I could only wonder what would be stopping it.

Whoa, you cleared 2000 posts Dennis. WOW

AJ

Hey AJ, you're right. And I only came here to ask what was safe to check in CCleaner.

Do I get a prize? Maybe an Opera that works.

[1984]

I cant get it to work on my 64 bit comp either.....works fine on the 32 though...

[DennisD]

1984, on May 24 2008, 08:09 PM, said:

I cant get it to work on my 64 bit comp either.....works fine on the 32 though...

That's just as weird.

Welcome to the club. A pretty exclusive club at that.

[davey]

DennisD, on May 24 2008, 04:34 PM, said:

That's just as weird.

Welcome to the club. A pretty exclusive club at that.

Hey can anybody join this new club ?
No! No! No! I want my chance at Opera also.
davey

[DennisD]

I've had another go posting this anomaly on the Opera forums, and there's someone else posting exactly the same thing.

Hells teeth, after at least a year since I first posted this problem over there, you'd hope a solution might be available.

[Humpty]

Dennis have you tried Opendns to see if Opera will connect.

[DennisD]

You've been sitting there down under, with a fresh one out of the fridge, ruminating on this one Humpty.

Sad to say, I've tried that as well. But don't let me stop you grabbing another cold one and getting those grey cells working overtime.

This has to be something simple, or not.

[BrownSugar]

What happens when you open the browser? Do you have it set to go to a home page or does it open a blank page (that's currently my configuration. I just type in the site I want after clicking "new tab"?

I would have suggested using Regseeker to search your registry using the term "Opera" and try to manually clean out all references, but I just took a look at my Zsoft Uninstaller installation log, and noticed that Opera installed a load of registry strings. Many are in areas of HKLM that have no reference to Opera and would be very hard to find. That's why I find to hard to believe that Revo can actually find all these registry strings that appear to be otherwise unrelated.

When you uninstalled Opera, before reinstalling did you make sure all references to it were deleted in your Documents and Settings folder?

When you run the program, do you see Opera.dll and Opera.exe files (using Sysinternals' Process Explorer)? Have you tried running Hijackthis when Opera is running (and when it's closed)?