Access denied (policy_denied) - on a XP home without any problems before machine.

After the installation of several MS updates (which my or may not be the cause), I'm more able to access all of the URLS through IE 7. I get the following error:
Access denied (policy_denied)
The policy of your system is deprived of access to the requested URL.
For assistance, contact your network support team.

It's my laptop (a HP dv 9208 nr), running XP 5.1 (build 2600.xpsp_sp3__gdr.090804 - 1435:Service Pack 3)

I am also unable to connect to Outlook, or iTunes SharePoint.And and Google Earth are also out of order.
All URLS accessed through Firefox are fine, as is Skype, Yahoo IM, etc. So I don ' t * think * it's a problem of connection throughout. I reboot the router, however, but no change.

I have seen several discussions in various other forums where people have asked similar questions, but no resolution has been published.

Any help you can offer would be great, or what tech services online you would trust to help me effectively solve this problem at a price.

Thank you!

PAM

I finally gave in and called Support MS. $59 and 4 minutes later, it turns out be the setting of proxy under Tools > Internet Options > connections > LAN settings. I unchecked the box 'Use a proxy server for your LAN' proxy server and everything was fine.

I love it when it's as simple as that, but here it only cost me $59 to fix.

Tags: Windows

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