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by dpsethi 1 view

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I know this sounds something funny or fishy, but i am encountering a strange behaviour on my win2000 machine. The trouble is that i can browse web sites like mail.yahoo.com or monster.ca etc...from my win98 or winxp machines, but i cannot browse it from my win2000 running from my same machine (in a dual boot config).. I can browse other web sites from win2k machine.. I tried deleting my cookies and offline file contents from win2k, but of no help. I ran Norton antivirus also, but it gives the same behaviour.. Can somebody help me pls...

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by thechas

Do you have completely seperate installs for both IE and Norton for both OSs? The programs need to have unique folders for each OS.

If not, that is the root of your problem. IE especially needs to have totally unique program installations between the 2 OSs.

It is also possible that W2K is seeing some of W98s system files and getting confused.

The only things that you should be sharing between OSs are data files, and system hardware.

by sholbrook

When you say you can not browse, does this mean you can not access any internet sites? If you can not then you may have a wrong/corrupt NIC driver installation. Remove the NIC from Device Manager and allow Windows to reinstall it, if that still doesnot work then check the NIC manufacturers website for updated Windows 2000 driver and install it.
If you have connectivity but only some sites are blocked out, then check your security settings in Internet Options. Try one of the default levels (Medium is suggested). Also In Internet Exlorer under the tools menu, you can select Reset Web Settings - to restore your IE properties to their original configuration

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