John Bartow
john at winhaven.net
Fri Nov 21 11:04:33 CST 2003
Francisco: Thanks for replying. > 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. > I'll check the hosts to make sure but I'm pretty sure I did that when I first arrived on the scene and it did have things in it besides the loop-back - I cleared the entries. > 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? > I set it to use DHCP for the IP address about 6 months ago. They have a Linksys Router which acts as DHCP server for their cable conneciton. > lastly if it all fails, have them re-format and re-install > Windows XP pro, upgrades seldom go well :( > The whole scenario is pre-me or I wouldn't have upgraded it. They need a NT domain like a whole in the head. 5 PCs with simple file sharing is all they do, p2p would have been fine. There is no admin - just me getting called when things are a mess. Its not the ideal set-up to say the least. This is the only XP machine there, the rest are 98/ME. The part I can't figure is that everything worked fine up until two weeks ago. I though Mozilla would be the answer but at this point I'm considering reloading XP pro from scratch. I would prefer not to do that so I'm taking any and all suggestions first. Thanks, JB > > -- > -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 > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > dba-Tech mailing list > dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com > >