Windows 2000 internet problem

Hi everyone! I have Windows Pro, SP 4. There are several aspects to the problem, but I suspect they are all related: 1 Some webpages sometimes appear garbled. By garbled I mean that what appears is what would happen if you took the source and deleted a few random lines from them.

This does not happen on all sites, only about a quarter of them - most notable is MSN Hotmail. What is really dumbfounding is that it's not consistent. A site might open up fine but it screws up after you view several pages or refresh it a couple of times - or vice-versa. The rest of the sites are fine and never experience any problems. And again from some locations incredibly big downloads go just fine, but corrupt downloads are much more common than corrupt sites or at least so it seems.

When you try to save something to disk, it gets the file information, asks you to choose the folder where you want it to go and when it gets to the actual 'downloading' window you suddenly get nothing happening.

The animation plays, but all the fields and progress bar are left blank and there is no internet traffic. Once again, this happens only when downloading from a certain percentage of sites and very inconsistently too. On some sites you can retry the download a couple of times and make it work - on others no matter how many times you try it won't, only to come back the next day and have it download perfectly from the first time round.

I've had this for almost half a year - it just seemed to 'happen' one day, I can't remember installing or doing anything special. I have Norton Internet Security which I keep updated, but it has never found it if it's a virus. I also have Windows ME and Linux on my computer - the internet works fine as far as they're concerned.

Recently I even tried completely re-installing Win 2k including fully formatting D-drive where it's installed , which - oddly - did not fix the problem although it is possible that I then proceeded to install among all the software whatever it is that causes the problem again. I always regarded it is a minor nuisance and just lived with it, but now I recently installed Broadband and this is becoming incrasingly frustrating Joined Aug 3, Messages Yeah, sure: Logfile of HijackThis v1.

United States English. Home R2 Library Forums. Ask a question. Quick access. Search related threads. Remove From My Forums. Answered by:. Archived Forums. Windows Server General Forum. Sign in to vote. I uninstalled my network adapter on Windows to try and repair an issue. I have Cox cable internet and a Belkin wireless router.

The wireless signal is fine, but my XP netbook cannot connect to it. My iphone can connect. I am not sure what else to try. If a module is missing, it is placed on the "Remove" list for removal. Advanced users can override suggested removals in the "Advanced" area. When "Finish" is pressed, the undesired entries are removed, and the remaining entries in the registry are renumbered to make them consecutive.

The total module counts are then updated. Finally, the program will display a summary of the changes that were made. You'll probably need to reboot your computer afterward, before testing your connection.

If, by some chance, that doesn't do the trick, there is a way to remove and restore the default Winsock tree, without re-installing Windows which probably wouldn't fix it, anyway.

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