Please try the following:

• Click the Refresh button if you are feeling a bit worn out.
  
• Make sure that you have spelt everything correctly.  There are to much loussy speling and gramer on the webb these days.
  
• To check your connection settings, kick the box a few times and see if that helps.  If not, look under Internet Irritations and see if it is indeed a bottomless chasm of weird, confusing messages created by geeks to keep poor ignorant types like us in the dark.
  
• If your Network Administrator has enabled it, (unlikely, since they are usually power crazy misanthropes) Microsoft Windows can examine your network and automatically discover your network connection settings.  It then emails Bill Gates to tell him if you have any pirated Microsoft software.
  If you would like Windows to try and uncover your misdeeds, why not click here to send him an email directly and save him the trouble of installing spyware on your Pentium chips?
  
• Some sites require 128-bit connection security. Others are greedy and require more bits. Click the Help menu to be told a load of weird gobbledygook, and then click About Internet Explorer to determine what strength security you have installed.  If it's strong enough, send the security guys around to the computer shop salesman who diddled you to "negotiate" with him.
  
• If you are trying to reach a secure site, make sure your Security settings can support it. Some settings are getting old and have bad backs and can hardly support their own weight, let alone your pitiful blunderings.  Click the Tools menu, and then click Internet Options. This won't actually do anything but it might make you feel better.
  
• Click the Back button to try another link.  Or better still, just give up and go for a walk outside.