I've reviewed lots of articles and postings related to issues related to XP SP3, but I'm hoping someone can shortcut my troubleshooting a bit.I'm running an older eMachine (T6520) with an AMD Athlon 64 processor. The OS is XP MEC version 2002 with SP3. I've had some trouble with this computer associated with some system programs not functioning, the most obvious one being System Restore. I recently posted on this site for some help with getting missing files restored, but have not yet had luck resolving that issue. I don't care as much about that, provided I can access the internet, which will be the primary use of this computer.Everything was working ok, until I installed SP3, after which I was unable to access the internet. I tried to uninstalled SP3, but keep getting an error related to a missing file. I was about ready to do a full system restore from CD, but then I restarted into the safe mode "with networking," and was actually able to access the internet. This makes me think there is some sort of security setting that's preventing me from accessing the internet. I've temporarily turned off my Windows firewall to see if that helped, but no luck. I'm running IE7 (also had trouble accessing the internet when I installed IE8). I have a USB Netgear wireless adapter. Let me know if there's anything else you need.Thanks in advance for the help. Todd 1 person got this answerI do too

Had a bit of a delay in working on this, but trying again today to sort it out. Unfortunately, I couldn't get the above web links to work (I'm obviously working on a different computer from the eMachine noted above). Looks like ezlan.net is no longer available. As a quick update, I know that my internet connection on the subject eMachine computer is working because I was just able to update my anti-virus software and have also been able to connect using Windows IM. Just can't get through on IE. Any additional troubleshooting tips would be appreciated.

Had a bit of a delay in working on this, but trying again today to sort it out. Unfortunately, I couldn't get the above web links to work (I'm obviously working on a different computer from the eMachine noted above). Looks like ezlan.net is no longer available. As a quick update, I know that my internet connection on the subject eMachine computer is working because I was just able to update my anti-virus software and have also been able to connect using Windows IM. Just can't get through on IE. Any additional troubleshooting tips would be appreciated. ====== Update ========Looks like the site linked above is working now, so I'm looking at it. At first glance, I don't see anything too suspicious on the startup list.

HiThank you for letting me know that http://www.ezlan.netis working.It found out that there was a 30 second delay in logging on due to corrupted .js file. The file was fixed.Judging from your description in the second post may be this would further help,http://www.ezlan.net/clean.html#refreshnet Jack-MVP Windows Networking. WWW.EZLAN.NET