[dba-Tech] WinXP IE6 problems

:D, 
  One thing that quickly comes to mind is to locate the Hosts file and check to see if it has any entries made for google, or msn.  it is possible that since "they" upgraded it that "they" modified the hosts file too.  Just do a standard search for hosts and it should turn up.

additionally if your box is going through a proxy that can also yield undesired effects... however it may have been set to go through a proxy by one of the admins.  additionally also is the IP assinged by the DNS controller or is it hardcoded it?

lastly if it all fails, have them re-format and re-install Windows XP pro, upgrades seldom go well :(


-- 
-Francisco


John Bartow wrote:

>A client's machine that has WinXP and IE6 will cannot search from MSN
>Search, can not get to Google and a number of other search sites. I also
>cannot get to Spybot search and destroy's site from that machine. I had
>loaded it a few months ago and tried to update it and that failed so I tried
>to unistall and reinstall it and that failed. I ran NU Windows Doctor and
>didn't have anything wrong but missing shortcuts (very rarely have I seen a
>machine where NU WD comes up 0 problems). I installed AdAware and found some
>advertising cookies but nothing big and ugly. I scanned it with two
>different Online AV scanners and came up empty. I checked the search
>settings in IE and it all appears normal. Odd thing is, I can use the Google
>powered search on Netscape's page.
>
>I read Francisco's mind and loaded Mozilla 1.5 - same results as IE6.
>;o)
>
>The only thing different about this PC is that it came preloaded with WinXP
>Homely Edition but they have an NT domain it needed to join  so they
>upgraded it to WinXP Pro. Only one like that I've seen.
>
>Any ideas?
>
>jb
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