Hello everyone,

I have a problem on my house network. I have one XP SP3 desktop
computer and a Vista Basic laptop. Both have IE7 installed. The two
computers are connected to a netgear router by cables. On both
computers, I cannot access my router's configuration page
(192.168.0.1), I don't even have access to the prompt login of my
router. I keep getting a HTTP 400 error, but I can navigate anywhere
on internet without any problems. I tried accessing my router using
Microsoft Word 2003 Web toolbar on both computers and I got a little
further. I got the prompt login of my router, but after the user and
password entered, Word redirect to a IE7 window and then I get a HTTP
400 error. On my XP machine, I unistalled IE7 to get back to IE6 and
try to access my router and it worked fined, I had access to
everything. I reinstalled IE7 and tried I could not access to my
router again. This makes me think that the problem is somewhere in
IE7, because it seems to work with Word 2003, which was probably
programmed with internet controls of IE5 or 6 since it's development
date. I alos installed Firefox to try to access my router and it
worked fine too. But I don't want to use Firefox, I prefer using the
build in applications to reduce the risk of incompatibility softwares
and also to reduce the amount of software installed on my machines,
that does the same things. I have tried disabeling the TCP/IPv6
protocol to my network connection, tried adding my router address to
internet and intranet authorized sites, tried deactivated the fishing
filter, nothing worked.

Any ideas?


Sorry for the mistakes, I'm a french speaking person.

Charles