Used a VPN, deleted it without disabling it, now nothing will connect to the internet

Yesterday I had activated a VPN, and this morning my power went out, shutting off my computer. I don’t know what was going through my head, but I decided to delete it without deactivating it, and now nothing will use my internet. I’m not sure if that is what’s causing this, but that’s the only reason I could see this happening for. My computer is connected to my WiFi fine, and the internet definitely works completely fine, as I am using it currently to write this post on my phone. I’m not sure how to fix this problem, and I’m in pretty dire need for help. I will provide more information if needed.

Sounded like a configuration issue, if you deleted the VPN app without disabling the VPN first then your connection would still be using a proxy that you no longer have access to.

Good on both of yall for figuring that out.

Can you ping a remote address? Try pinging 8.8.8.8.

Are you sure all files are deleted? Which VPN?

You can reset dns / flush in command prompt.

Check your ipv4 settings through control panel advanced, network.

Restart may provide a new ip as well. Restart modem.

If you have a Hotspot on your phone, connect to that and see if all is actually good with the connection. Then you can narrow that down.

Download it again.
Oh wait …

Use phone ? Trasfer app ! And reconnect, this is the easy way .
Second easy way in my book is to RESET /reinstall whatever OS ,
Third is Bonk 2nd form water bath

Pinged 8.8.8.8, says 4 packets were sent and 4 packets were recieved, and average round trip time was 37 ms.

Right, that’s google’s DNS servers so there is no actual issue with the net thankfully.

Just sounds like the DNS servers for the network card need to be configured.

type ncpa.cpl in the command prompt, then you need to determine which of the adapters in there is the one that provides your internet.

Right click it and go to properties, double click where it says internet protocol version 4, that should open up a window that allows you to specify IP configuration and DNS servers.

Don’t touch the top part, but where it says to specify dns servers click the button that says “use the following DNS servers” type 8.8.8.8 in the first box and then 8.8.4.4 in the second box and click OK.

Now try to load up a website.

this saved my life thank you!

I followed all of those instructions and opened my OperaGX browser and my Chrome browser, and both still say I have no internet.

Glad it helped you out!

OK, in the command prompt type the command route print

In the output under IPV4 route table, in the active routes section are there multiple entries for 0.0.0.0 network destination?

The only times 0.0.0.0 show up are on the very top row, under Network Destination, and Netmask. So only once under Network destination

hmm OK, still think this is a DNS issue.

Can you type ipconfig /all command and list each adapter and the dns server entry for each one.

It lists 4, and 3 of the 4 say “Media Disconnected” and don’t list anything about DNS, but the last one, “Wireless LAN adapter Wi-Fi 2” says “DNS Servers … 8.8.8.8” Then under 8.8.8.8, it says “8.8.4.4”

hmm everything seems to be correctly configured.

Can you ping google.com and see what it says for that, that way we can rule out DNS if it resolves that the proper IP address.

It went through, 0% loss, 26ms average

Wonderful…

Well that means the configuration issue must be with the browsers themselves then. Did the VPN install any extensions into the browsers?

The only extentions I can see on my OperaGX browser are built in Opera extentions, and Chrome only has Google Docs Offline and uBlock Origin.

And things like Steam and Discord also do not work. Not just the browsers.

hmm nothing there that seems out of the ordinary.