Re: Loss Broadband Connection

From: Jim Macklin (p51mustang[threeX12)
Date: 02/17/05 

Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2005 06:58:02 -0600

I think that if you had the time to open Norton, find and
manually fix each blocked application and port, you could
fix it. My problem was that my son lives nearly fifty miles
away and I don't have a car right now. I rode with him from
his work and had to be back the next morning. After several
hours trying to find the problem with his connection, I just
ran out of time about 11:30 PM. A format and reinstall at
that point seemed the quickest and fastest. If you have the
time to open and read all the Norton manual, find out how to
turn off its damn automatic features, then you can probably
fix it.

I just thought that I could save somebody the search for a
reason.
If you haven't done so, export your email settings,
addresses and IE favorites to a floppy, CD or flash disk,
that will save you a lot of trouble. 

-- 
The people think the Constitution protects their rights;
But government sees it as an obstacle to be overcome.
"Mordechai_flip" <Mordechaiflip@discussions.microsoft.com> 
wrote in message 
news:ADCCB430-9778-4E74-B1F0-D59F2B5634BE@microsoft.com...
| That sounds right, about the same time, I was having 
trouble with Nortions
| System Works update and uninstalled it. Is a clean install 
the only way to
| fix it? The idea of having to do that makes me shutter.
|
| "Jim Macklin" wrote:
|
| > Just had ands solved a similar problem on my son's Dell. 
It
| > seems that an update to Norton Internet Security was
| > automatically blocking XP services, such as the 
application
| > gateway layer service and basically any application that
| > tried to connect to the Internet.  Even turning Norton 
off
| > did not fix the problem, what ever registry that it set 
was
| > not reset.  After several days of trying to reset with
| > ipconfig, using the repair button in the network 
properties
| > (cache could not be cleared, didn't work) ended up 
deleting
| > the C: partition (just OS and apps) and doing a clean
| > install.  It was during this that Norton problem was
| > identified.
| >
| >
| > -- 
| > The people think the Constitution protects their rights;
| > But government sees it as an obstacle to be overcome.
| >
| >
| > "Mordechai_flip" 
<Mordechaiflip@discussions.microsoft.com>
| > wrote in message
| > 
news:72D12AB2-98D1-450D-AD9E-D509702ECC12@microsoft.com...
| > | Every time I have to restart my computer I lose my 
cable
| > connection and have
| > | to use ipconfig then ipconfig /renew to get it working
| > again. I had this
| > | problem earlier, and nothing I have tried has worked. 
I am
| > running XP Home
| > | SP2 with a USB cable modem, and no router. All known
| > drivers are up to date,
| > | and there isn't any problem listed in the device 
manager.
| > I have uninstalled
| > | and re installed Zone Alarm and Norton's,  run  spybot
| > searches, virus checks
| > | with up to date programs,and turned off the Windows
| > firewall.
| > |
| > | Any other ideas? I, my cable company, and microsoft 
are
| > clean out.
| > |
| > | Error Log (there was and address, I put in the stars):
| > |
| > | Unable to contact a DHCP server. The Automatic Private 
IP
| > Address
| > | ***.***.***.*** will be assigned to dial-in clients.
| > Clients may be unable to
| > | access resources on the network.
| > |
| > | For more information, see Help and Support Center at
| > | http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.
| > |
| >
| >
| >