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Internet connection problem
I'm running WinMe and had a hardware crash that wiped out most of the
files for Zone Alarm (free ed) and AVG Anti-virus. I re-installed AVG OK but ZA won't re-install, and I got various error messages about VSUTIL.DLL not found. However that file was still in C:\Windows\System with its original date-stamp and I tried replacing it without success. I eventually fixed ongoing error messages at startup by finding and deleting residual files and registry entries for ZA, but it still won't re-install. I also got an error message in Total Recorder at close-down saying it couldn't reinstate missing registry key HKEY_CURRENT_USER\AppEvents\Schemes\Apps\.Default\ InternetAlert \.Current so I added that key manually (with no content) without making any difference. I've also tried re-installing Total Recorder and re-installing Windows. Apart from having no firewall I also have a major problem with Internet connection speed (I am on dial-up), which is normal (about 36K) when I re-boot and first connect with Firefox, then slows down to about 0.05K after a few minutes on-line and everything times out including Outlook Express. Not sure whether it's idle time, number of packets sent or switching sites that triggers the problem. Closing the browser doesn't fix it but a re-boot does. Ping Plotter gives normal response times but a few unreacheable destinations. Local URL's are OK so that might be irrelevant. The Dr TCP settings I can see are also OK. I have run out of things to try. Can anyone help me with other suggestions or registry settings relating to ports, firewalls, browsers and Internet connection that might have been corrupted please? And where can I find the correct settings? It took several re-boots to post this message. |
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Forwarded to WinME General via crosspost.
-- ~Robear Dyer (PA Bear) MS MVP-Windows (IE, OE, Security, Shell/User) AumHa VSOP & Admin http://aumha.net DTS-L http://dts-l.net/ Alan wrote: I'm running WinMe and had a hardware crash that wiped out most of the files for Zone Alarm (free ed) and AVG Anti-virus. I re-installed AVG OK but ZA won't re-install, and I got various error messages about VSUTIL.DLL not found. However that file was still in C:\Windows\System with its original date-stamp and I tried replacing it without success. I eventually fixed ongoing error messages at startup by finding and deleting residual files and registry entries for ZA, but it still won't re-install. I also got an error message in Total Recorder at close-down saying it couldn't reinstate missing registry key HKEY_CURRENT_USER\AppEvents\Schemes\Apps\.Default\ InternetAlert \.Current so I added that key manually (with no content) without making any difference. I've also tried re-installing Total Recorder and re-installing Windows. Apart from having no firewall I also have a major problem with Internet connection speed (I am on dial-up), which is normal (about 36K) when I re-boot and first connect with Firefox, then slows down to about 0.05K after a few minutes on-line and everything times out including Outlook Express. Not sure whether it's idle time, number of packets sent or switching sites that triggers the problem. Closing the browser doesn't fix it but a re-boot does. Ping Plotter gives normal response times but a few unreacheable destinations. Local URL's are OK so that might be irrelevant. The Dr TCP settings I can see are also OK. I have run out of things to try. Can anyone help me with other suggestions or registry settings relating to ports, firewalls, browsers and Internet connection that might have been corrupted please? And where can I find the correct settings? It took several re-boots to post this message. |
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On Jan 9, 9:19*pm, "PA Bear [MS MVP]" wrote:
Forwarded to WinME General via crosspost. -- ~Robear Dyer (PA Bear) MS MVP-Windows (IE, OE, Security, Shell/User) AumHa VSOP & Adminhttp://aumha.net DTS-Lhttp://dts-l.net/ Alan wrote: I'm running WinMe and had a hardware crash that wiped out most of the files for Zone Alarm (free ed) and AVG Anti-virus. I re-installed AVG OK but ZA won't re-install, and I got various error messages about VSUTIL.DLL not found. However that file was still in C:\Windows\System with its original date-stamp and I tried replacing it without success. I eventually fixed ongoing error messages at startup by finding and deleting residual files and registry entries for ZA, but it still won't re-install. I also got an error message in Total Recorder at close-down saying it couldn't reinstate missing registry key HKEY_CURRENT_USER\AppEvents\Schemes\Apps\.Default\ InternetAlert \.Current so I added that key manually (with no content) without making any difference. I've also tried re-installing Total Recorder and re-installing Windows. Apart from having no firewall I also have a major problem with Internet connection speed (I am on dial-up), which is normal (about 36K) when I re-boot and first connect with Firefox, then slows down to about 0.05K after a few minutes on-line and everything times out including Outlook Express. Not sure whether it's idle time, number of packets sent or switching sites that triggers the problem. Closing the browser doesn't fix it but a re-boot does. Ping Plotter gives normal response times but a few unreacheable destinations. Local URL's are OK so that might be irrelevant. The Dr TCP settings I can see are also OK. I have run out of things to try. Can anyone help me with other suggestions or registry settings relating to ports, firewalls, browsers and Internet connection that might have been corrupted please? And where can I find the correct settings? It took several re-boots to post this message.- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - Have you tried System Restore to some time before the hardware crash, Remove ZA (which version do you have?), put on AVG (I find AVG 7.5 "works")? No doubt you would have put on any backup if you had one? |
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This post is a spoof. I did *not* post it (check the posting IP in its
headers). -- ~Robear Dyer (PA Bear) MS MVP-Windows (IE, OE, Security, Shell/User) AumHa VSOP & Admin http://aumha.net DTS-L http://dts-l.net/ PA Bear [MS MVP] wrote: In many others it has been like the dawning of the day, when at first but a little light appears, and it may be presently hid with a cloud; and then it appears again, and shines a little brighter, and gradually increases, with intervening darkness, till at length it breaks forth more clearly from behind the clouds. And many are, doubtless, ready to date their conversion wrong, throwing by those lesser degrees of light that appeared at first dawning, and calling some more remarkable experience they had afterwards, their conversion. This often, in a great measure, arises from a wrong understanding of what they have always been taught, that conversion is a great change, wherein old things are done away, and all things become new, or at least from a false inference from that doctrine. Persons commonly at first conversion, and afterwards, have had many texts of Scripture brought to their minds, which are exceeding suitable to their circumstances, often come with great power, as the word of God or of Christ indeed; and many have a multitude of sweet invitations, promises, and doxologies flowing in one after another, bringing great light and comfort with them, filling the soul brimful, enlarging the heart, and opening the mouth in religion. And it seems to be necessary to suppose that there is an immediate influence of the Spirit of God, oftentimes, in bringing texts of Scripture to the mind. Not that I suppose |
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There were 114 such spoof/bogus posts made in the windowsme.general NG
between 04:40 and 09:41 GMT today. Win95 & Win98 NGs were also affected. I have reported them to Microsoft as have others. I have removed the cross post to alt.prisons in this reply. Each of the spoofs had a cross-post to another, random, Usenet NG. -- Mike Maltby PA Bear [MS MVP] wrote: This post is a spoof. I did *not* post it (check the posting IP in its headers). |
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Awww, and I was just about to ask if you had any of that stuff you're smoking left,
for me...... -- Glen Ventura, MS MVP Shell/User, A+ http://dts-l.net/ http://dts-l.net/goodpost.htm "PA Bear [MS MVP]" wrote in message ... This post is a spoof. I did *not* post it (check the posting IP in its headers). -- ~Robear Dyer (PA Bear) MS MVP-Windows (IE, OE, Security, Shell/User) AumHa VSOP & Admin http://aumha.net DTS-L http://dts-l.net/ PA Bear [MS MVP] wrote: In many others it has been like the dawning of the day, when at first but a little light appears, and it may be presently hid with a cloud; and then it appears again, and shines a little brighter, and gradually increases, with intervening darkness, till at length it breaks forth more clearly from behind the clouds. And many are, doubtless, ready to date their conversion wrong, throwing by those lesser degrees of light that appeared at first dawning, and calling some more remarkable experience they had afterwards, their conversion. This often, in a great measure, arises from a wrong understanding of what they have always been taught, that conversion is a great change, wherein old things are done away, and all things become new, or at least from a false inference from that doctrine. Persons commonly at first conversion, and afterwards, have had many texts of Scripture brought to their minds, which are exceeding suitable to their circumstances, often come with great power, as the word of God or of Christ indeed; and many have a multitude of sweet invitations, promises, and doxologies flowing in one after another, bringing great light and comfort with them, filling the soul brimful, enlarging the heart, and opening the mouth in religion. And it seems to be necessary to suppose that there is an immediate influence of the Spirit of God, oftentimes, in bringing texts of Scripture to the mind. Not that I suppose |
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[Yeah, I got it from the prison guards.]
glee wrote: Awww, and I was just about to ask if you had any of that stuff you're smoking left, for me...... "PA Bear [MS MVP]" wrote in message ... This post is a spoof. I did *not* post it (check the posting IP in its headers). -- ~Robear Dyer (PA Bear) MS MVP-Windows (IE, OE, Security, Shell/User) AumHa VSOP & Admin http://aumha.net DTS-L http://dts-l.net/ PA Bear [MS MVP] wrote: In many others it has been like the dawning of the day, when at first but a little light appears, and it may be presently hid with a cloud; and then it appears again, and shines a little brighter, and gradually increases, with intervening darkness, till at length it breaks forth more clearly from behind the clouds. And many are, doubtless, ready to date their conversion wrong, throwing by those lesser degrees of light that appeared at first dawning, and calling some more remarkable experience they had afterwards, their conversion. This often, in a great measure, arises from a wrong understanding of what they have always been taught, that conversion is a great change, wherein old things are done away, and all things become new, or at least from a false inference from that doctrine. Persons commonly at first conversion, and afterwards, have had many texts of Scripture brought to their minds, which are exceeding suitable to their circumstances, often come with great power, as the word of God or of Christ indeed; and many have a multitude of sweet invitations, promises, and doxologies flowing in one after another, bringing great light and comfort with them, filling the soul brimful, enlarging the heart, and opening the mouth in religion. And it seems to be necessary to suppose that there is an immediate influence of the Spirit of God, oftentimes, in bringing texts of Scripture to the mind. Not that I suppose |
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Internet connection problem SPOOF started again!
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Have you tried System Restore to some time before the hardware crash,
Remove ZA (which version do you have?), put on AVG (I find AVG 7.5 "works")? No doubt you would have put on any backup if you had one? No I didn't - I decided the missing folders for AVG and ZA were first priority, then when I ran into reinstall problems I thought there might be missing system files too so I reinstalled Windows - which of course wiped out all the earlier Restore points. Catch 22. I have since realized my 'normal' connection is also very slow (only 3 or 4K) and the cause of the additional slowing isn't Internet connection but something else - no idea what yet. Wondering if a registry patch of all the settings that might be affecting it would be worth trying, but I don't know where to get it from. Any ideas please? |
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How do you know the internet connection isn't the problem? It's my
experience that telephone line quality is darn near *everything* when it comes to dial-up connection speed. -- Gary S. Terhune MS-MVP Shell/User www.grystmill.com "Alan" wrote in message ... Have you tried System Restore to some time before the hardware crash, Remove ZA (which version do you have?), put on AVG (I find AVG 7.5 "works")? No doubt you would have put on any backup if you had one? No I didn't - I decided the missing folders for AVG and ZA were first priority, then when I ran into reinstall problems I thought there might be missing system files too so I reinstalled Windows - which of course wiped out all the earlier Restore points. Catch 22. I have since realized my 'normal' connection is also very slow (only 3 or 4K) and the cause of the additional slowing isn't Internet connection but something else - no idea what yet. Wondering if a registry patch of all the settings that might be affecting it would be worth trying, but I don't know where to get it from. Any ideas please? |
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