can't play online games

From: Jeff (anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 08/31/04


Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2004 21:44:02 -0700

Hi Doc,

I saw a post in here within the past 3 or 4 days
describing the same problem and someone posted possible
solutions. Sorry that I can be more specific, but I know
its within the past few days (probably 40 to 50 pages
worth now).

Jeff

>-----Original Message-----
>ok what now?
>My hard drive went bad so I replaced it, then I had to
order new quick
>restore disks from compaq. got that done and installed my
new norton internet
>security pro 2004, then all my microsoft updates, this
was last week, then
>service pak #2 was ready two days ago, great everything
is working great,
>oops! my wife goes back on and gets all her accounts set
back up and goes
>online and can,t play any of her pogo or yahoo games, and
my daughter cant
>use her aol instant messenger. I turned my security off
to see if that was it
>but it did not work. I have all my updates, I don't think
it has anything to
>do with service pak #2 because the fire wall is turned
off because norton is
>handling that. My wife tried playing her games the day
before I installed
>service pak#2 anyway and they did'nt work. Any
suggestions?
> Thanks Dr. Jeff
>
>
>.
>



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