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.

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.

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 -

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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?

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

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).

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

[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

PA Bear [MS MVP] wrote:

Certainly DID NOT make the post to which I am replying!
--
Mike Maltby

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?

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?