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by surrealx

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Hi,
I have a windows XP computer that was working fine. A modem was used to dial up to the Internet and one day on opening Internet Explorer, "This page cannot be displayed" immediately came up. No dial-up screen appeared, even though "Always dial my default Connection" was selected. After dialling up manually, Internet Explorer would still display the same error. So I deleted the Dial up connection and tried to recreate it, only to have the "Connect using Modem" option greyed out in New Network Connection wizard. There was no way I could create another Connection.

Another problem that started at the same time, was that every time the computer restarted after logging in, it would take around 10 minutes to finish loading everything. And during this time the computer would be running really slow, and I was unable to open up certain things like Network Properties, and Printer settings. Finally, I rebuilt the computer from scratch.

Everything worked fine on the computer for about 5 days, and then all of a sudden, the exact same problem came back.

Any ideas???

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by mikeindo

is it on an older machine? maybe some of the hardware components arent on XP's Hardware Compatability List... when you first opened IE and the error msg appeared, did you notice if you received an IP address from the ISP?

by surrealx

No, the PC is about 3 months old. And remember that it worked fine originally, and for five days after the rebuild. I haven't yet checked if I received an IP address from the ISP though.

by dmiles

Take the computer off the Network,
Scan the computer for a virus or use the Search Find Files or Folders for any .exe files that are very large,the files may exist in the Root C:\Windows

Also check the other computers on the network for any viruses or large files,which may be reson the symtons showed up again

by phil.hall

Run the diskperf utility. Also make sure that your computer is fully defragged and you have a sufficiently large enough pagefile.

by rebling

you definatly have a VIRUS -
mostly catched up on Warez or sex sites.
Nothing helps - we spend hours to recover the
disk(s),sometime day?s without a network !
Doesn?t help at all !
Show with Fdisk your partition,if still okay -
reformat and setup again.
Backup to D: if you can or CD!

by slim_jim_tx

It sounds to me that you have a virus too... If you have a System Restore enabled, you can restore your system before you were getting all of these problems. Try to restore it before the problems and see what happens. Then update your virus protection dat files.

Hope this helps.

by f-baer

(note. english is not my language(a kraut)
are the network services startet? take a look at the services..
before u take a new install, low level format your hd (take llf from maxtor.com), so u can be sure that nothing is in mbr&co, scan your cd?swith several av-sw on a other pc. before u install other sw, test your pc a few days (3dmark, ram,surface hd etc..).
good luck, cu

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