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My browser won't load anything related to google; I've already done a virus scan, adjusted my firewalls, and restarted my modem and router, and nothing has worked.

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rwwheeler
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My browser won't load anything related to google (including search engine, gmail, docs, etc). The browser times out. I can access other sites like hotmail and facebook fine.

My browser won't load anything related to google (including search engine, gmail, docs, etc). The browser times out. I can access other sites like hotmail and facebook fine.

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the-edmeister
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Can you load Google by using the IP address for Google?

http://74.125.225.50/

If that works, it's probably a DNS problem (Domain Name Server). You can try clearing the DNS cache in Windows and see if that corrects that problem.

See this - http://www.tacktech.com/display.cfm?ttid=330 - and - http://www.tech-recipes.com/rx/233/clear_windows_dns_cache/ -

rwwheeler
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Thanks for the quick reply. I can load the main google page by typing in http://74.125.225.50/ but I still can't search. It times out. I cleaned out the DNS cache too, and that didn't work either. My job relies heavily on google docs, so I really need to be able to get in! I've had this problem for several days.