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August 5, 2010 at 08:35 PM
who am i really

how about a break from . . .

by who am i really . Updated 15 years, 10 months ago

all these windows password reset questions,
and get back to something else ?

here’s a problem that’s just all of a sudden started on my main workstation,

I now can’t access mozilla anything can’t update add-ons etc.

the add-ons manager gets nowhere, no network activity shows and all the add-ons report back with
“there was a problem . . .”

and when I phone home to mozilla
(help, > check for updates)
to see if there are any firefox updates
I get a dialog with

“the connection was refused”

wtf.

I even blasted the system today and restored to a month old clean backup
where everything was working up to this past Tuesday
the add-ons manager would report back, “There are no updates for …”

here’s the rub;
if I go over to one of my old win2K boxes on the same network,
I don’t have the problem of no access to mozilla . . .
it was working last night an this morning
but when I fired up the main workstation: -> no go, no connecting to mozilla . . .

Spybot S&D says: no problems
MBAM says: no problems
ESET is about 35% into a full scan and has already completed the C:\ with no problems found

this system,
which let’s me connect to just about anything else as I’m posting this from the problem workstation

I have an ongoing problem of the BS “server not found”
junk when trying to access MS anything and that happens across the network on any system

but a hearty handful of quick repeated refreshes via the address bar and the enter key I can usually connect but so far no go with mozilla. . .

System:
– XP Pro SP3
– most crapdates: No IE7, or IE8, No WiMP11
– Intel Gigabit Ethernet
– C:\> 40GB; 12.5GB used (SATA)
– D:\> 1,000GB; 50% used (SATA)
– E:\> 1,500GB; 70% used (SATA)
– F:\> 278GB; 26% used (SATA)
– G:\> CD/DVD +-RW multi (E-IDE)
– H:\> CD/DVD +-RW multi (SATA)
– I:\> CD RW (E-IDE)
– J:\> 1,000GB; 50% used (SATA)
– K:\> 1,000GB; 40% used (SATA)

Multi-Card Reader assigned:
W: X: Y: Z:

Firefox 3.5.10 was .11 but can’t get updates now

basically need to know what if anything can be done:

I even tried removing & re-installing the NIC before blasting the whole thing to restore from the backup

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