the Stinger can be run from a floppy, or USB stick - the others will have to
be installed

Disable Norton email scanning - it's worse than useless anyhow (as Norton
themselves admitted until recently).

WRT your Environment error
check the contents of CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT in Notepad after a fresh
boot - copy/paste them here if you need help interpreting them. Such
problems are often caused by older drivers attempting to load Real-Mode DOS
drivers - check your sound card drivers are up-to-date.


--
Noel Paton (MS-MVP 2002-2004, Win9x)

Nil Carborundum Illegitemi
http://www.btinternet.com/~winnoel/millsrpch.htm

Please read http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm on how to post messages to NG's
or
http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/f.../Mar27pmvp.asp
"Mark" wrote in message
...
Since i am not able to use internet on my other computer,
how do i run these programs i download? Do i get it
through the network?
I am reluctant to download more things, considering this
problem occured after i downloaded addaware and changed
some things in msconfig.


-----Original Message-----
After recently using msconfig to go into selective
startup
and unchecking a number of programs (to stop spy and ad
ware) in the startup tab now I can not get to any website
with IE. Since then we have rechecked (√) every program
in
the startup tab, but no change. The computer is running
Windows ME and is on a network with 2 other computers. I
can ping the other computers and see their shared files.
I
can ping this computer and see its shared files. I can
ping IP addresses on the internet. I can tracert an IP
address. I thought it was a DNS problem, but I can
tracert
google.com. Oddly enough I can not ping or tracert
ping.symantec.com from this computer, but it works on the
other working computers. (Access to internet is fine on
the other computers) Typing an IP address into IE's
address window (like http://216.92.. etc..)does not work.
I have Norton and when the machine is starting up I get
the message: "Norton Antivirus is unable to start eMail
protection. Please ensure that TCP/IP is installed. This
suggests something is wrong with my TCP/IP, but if I
change the TCP/IP properties I lose the ability to see
the
other computers. Also "Unable to synchronise the
environment variables in the windows registry with the
environment variables in the legacy files AUTOEXEC.BAT
and/or CONFIG.SYS" comes up after typing msconfig. What
should I do or test? I've noted uninstall and
reinstalling
TCP/IP on Win ME should be left to Microsoft dealer.
.