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Last week I encountered a strange problem. I was not able to open few of my favourite websites like timesofindia, yahoomail, times etc.. ( Luckily i could open google sites :)) The page would just simply not load, even if i left the system open for hours.. My day was severely boring without them... I was afraid of a virus attack ,as my system's anti-virus had expired.

I tried the following:

1. There was just 3G space left in my Hard disk. Cleared all the unwanted data , loaded required ones into DVD's, used a disk defrag tool to free up space in my hard disk. Freed about 50% of the space.
2. Removed the local host address 127.0.0.1 from HOSTS.
3. Run--> cmd--> ipconfig/flushdns

( I got these ideas when i googled for my problem)

But nothing worked. I could not even format my laptop, as I don't have OS DVD.

When was I worried, as to what next, I cleared all the cookies and restarted the system..

Yippie!!! It worked!! I could browse all of my favourite sites now and was happy that the solution was so simple!!

So, any of you encounter the same problem, just follow what I did :)