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I had the same issue on a friends Dell XP computer I was trying to fix.
(Website found, waiting for reply)

I had thought my issue was firewall based. But Firefox worked fine.
I tried disabling active services but that did not help
I tried reinstalling IE 6 ( http://support.microsoft.com/kb/318378 )
I tried reinstalling SP2
I tried upgrading to IE 7
I tried other minor fruitless en devours
(all of this with reboots at each significant step)

What I did do that had worked for me
Uninstalled IE 7
Uninstalled SP2 (with many warnings things may not work after)
Reinstalled SP2, Success!

I haven't reinstalled IE 7 as of yet, I wouldn't expect any issues in doing
so. But I must check with the owner if they want me to first.

So to sum up my experience, it seems that SP2 was the issue, and doing a
reinstall was not enough. I needed to be uninstalled first then reinstalled.

Hope this helps someone out there.

Mike
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OK HERE IS THE FIX!!!
Disable all managed addons in the internet explorer application.
then do a start run "msconfig"

Click on services and check hide all microsoft services
the disable all of the ones refering to antivirus of firewall software
then in the same window click on startup
disable all
reboot

now ie will work
if you run into something not working correctly as far as applications
go back into msconfig and simply check then enble on the one item in question.

Most applications do not need to be started at start up they will start
manually when you run them.

after this is done you can surf all you want. however i do suggest you
reinstall your AV software. However, the software based firewalls are always
in my opinion been very gummy use the windows firewall if you very concerned.

--
Robby Loyed
MCSE,CCNA,NET+,A+,VB.NET


"mike015" wrote:

> I had the same issue on a friends Dell XP computer I was trying to fix.
> (Website found, waiting for reply)
>
> I had thought my issue was firewall based. But Firefox worked fine.
> I tried disabling active services but that did not help
> I tried reinstalling IE 6 ( http://support.microsoft.com/kb/318378 )
> I tried reinstalling SP2
> I tried upgrading to IE 7
> I tried other minor fruitless en devours
> (all of this with reboots at each significant step)
>
> What I did do that had worked for me
> Uninstalled IE 7
> Uninstalled SP2 (with many warnings things may not work after)
> Reinstalled SP2, Success!
>
> I haven't reinstalled IE 7 as of yet, I wouldn't expect any issues in doing
> so. But I must check with the owner if they want me to first.
>
> So to sum up my experience, it seems that SP2 was the issue, and doing a
> reinstall was not enough. I needed to be uninstalled first then reinstalled.
>
> Hope this helps someone out there.
>
> Mike
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