Re: Strange happenings w/browsers and OE, please help!

"PMcOuntry" <paddington.hare@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:1179714678.430805.207510@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
On May 20, 7:21 pm, "Rock" <R...@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
"PMcOuntry" wrote





> About 3 days ago my computer started acting strange... by this I
> mean...

> IE or FireFox (FF) hang, when "connecting" to a web page the bottom
> left corner says STOP and it just continues to connect, and connect
> and connect and nothing happens.

> The same problem w/OE, says connecting, but can't find the email.

> I have fun virus, spyware, adware and nada. I disabled the firewall > to
> see if it was a conflict (though it never has before) and nada.

> I also either get, End Program - O which I have discovered is when > you
> try and shut down OE and it's not done searching for mail and/or a
> XPCOM: Event Receiver error.

> The computer on a router right next to this one worked fine until > last
> night, it started doing the same crap.

> Both computers run XP Pro, w/IE, OE, FF.

> Now an IT person I know offered this reason to me, that it has
> something to do w/recent microsoft updates?

> Problem is, I have to continuously reboot my computer in order to > run
> a darn thing.

> Once I reboot, all programs run normally for 15 - 30 minutes and > them
> bam, starts all over again.

> All other programs that access the net, such as Trillian, have no
> connection problems, nor does the virus software. It is just in > the
> browswers and OE.

> Any ideas what I can do to fix this, it is very annoying and a pain > in
> the you know what to reboot your computer every 30 minutes.

Where there any updates installed from Windows Updates right before the
problem started? If so remove them through add/remove programs then do a
System Restore to before they were installed. If no updates then try a
System Restore.

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Rock [MS-MVP User/Shell]- Hide quoted text -

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Yes, I think there was, I don't remember what, where can I find them
to uninstall them?

In his last paragraph, Rock said this could be done via "add/remove programs."

Specifically,

Start | Control Panel | Add or Remove Programs

Scroll down to "Windows XP - Software Updates." You'll see a whole mess of 'em. :-)

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