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Jerry,
Have you tried to repair internet explorer by going to add/remove programs .
I found this to work in a similar problem in Win98 but not too sure about
XP. Might be worth looking into.
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Sent: Wednesday, July 28, 2004 10:27 AM
Subject: [PCBUILD] Loss of Internet on Windows XP Pro SP1
> Hi Folks,
>
> This is wrecking my head so I hope somebody out there has a quick-fix. I
> spend a lot of time working with systems, setting them up from scratch,
> tweaking, upgrading, configuring....the whole nine yards. I'm also MCSA
and
> MCSE certified which ain't helping me much in this regard!!!
>
> Here's the problem;
>
> Over a period of time (it tends to be a number of months)......Internet
> functionality ceases to function. I just get the standard DNS error page
in
> the browser. Pinging any address times out. This is not PC specific
either,
> the same happens on a multitude of PC's with different H/W and configs.
> There was a KB article at MS that suggested removing and re-adding Windows
> Sockets 2 in the registry which I did try but to no avail.
>
> Up to now, I've had to resort to reinstalling the OS from scratch (a
repair
> has no impact either). This solves the issue but it's a serious PITA.
>
> Any help would be much appreciated.
>
> Jerry.
>
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