I've been searching everywhere for an answer to this same problem!!! I am interested in WHATEVER you can come up with as this as been driving me crazy for about a month now. Mine, too, worked fine until one DAY. I am curious about the ms updates because I did do a couple around the same time. I am going to try to remove them and see if that makes a difference. The only other problem I am having (occured also in the last month) is I cannot update anything anymore because suddenly I dont have "administrative rights" (I've posted this one already). My system is approx. 6 yrs old but have never REALLY had any problems until now.

I have a Pionex pc, running W98se. I am connected to the internet via SBC DSL, and have installed the SBC anti-virus, spyware, etc. I'm not really sure about firewalls, but I'm pretty sure SBC has one built in if I remember correctly. I use IE 6.0.2800.1106.

I've googled my brains out searching for answers to both my problems, so far without any luck. Any help you can give me would be appreciated.I'm still having this problem...anyone come up with a solution yet?If you have a problem START your own thread.
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