Your bookmarks were gone?  I don't know where Opera stores them, but if
that happened in IE, I'd strongly suspect that the OS had, for some reason,
decided that my account profile (under "Documents and Settings") was bad,
and had generated a new default profile for my account.
  I'm not sure what events can cause NT/2K/XP to do that, but it does
occasionally happen.

  It may be that Sygate is looking to the profile for a configuration file,
and not finding it.

Dave Gillett


On 26 Dec 2004 at 23:53, Sam Baughman wrote:

> Nothing changed, I shut down on a Friday night and the next morning I
> checked my email.  I then tried to check some web sites that I visit every
> day and the browser, Opera, would not load the home page.  I have been
> using Opera for several months.  After attempting to reload Opera I noticed
> that the Bookmarks were gone.  Then email would load but would not access
> the net, closed by foreign host was reason.
>
> After I found that I could connect w/o the firewall, I installed SP2 but
> that did not help.  I also made sure that the firewall from XP was not
> operational and tried Sygate and System Mechanic5 firewalls separately and
> still no connection.  Although I did find today that I could have a
> firewall running and connect with Opera but not my email.   I even updated
> to Eudora6.2 from 6.1 today and that did not help either.
>
> Thanks
>
>
> Date:    Sat, 25 Dec 2004 13:30:16 -0800
> From:    David Gillett <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re: Firewall and connectivity
>
>    Although many firewall products will provide a reasonable "one size fits
> all" configuration right out of the box, all can benefit from a little
> customization, and there may be some reason why your situation requires more
> than most.
>    You say the Sygate had been working for a year.  What changed?  Did you
> recently update XP to SP2?  In many cases, that will try to enable the XP
> firewall, and it may be the combination of this with your third-party
> firewall that causes your connection to break -- you only need one or the
> other active.
>
> Dave Gillett
>
>
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