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To: thecow who wrote (20285)6/7/2001 12:40:08 PM
From: Martin E. Frankel  Read Replies (6) of 110653
 
tc,

Thanks for your suggestions. It's beginning to seem as if Mitch's suggestion was the only one that will work... get a new computer!!

I routinely clear my cache (as you described)... often ever half hour... along with the history. Just tried it again and it still didn't help. I spoke with Mindspring tech support last night and they had me reconfigure some things (he was going so fast I couldn't write it down), but that didn't help. He then suggested I download Internet Explorer 5.5 with SP1 and internet tools and he walked me to the site and stayed with me until the download was started. Unfortunately this also didn't help. I then rebooted, used End-It-All and went to Norton SystemWorks and ran Win Doctor. It came up with 14 errors... mostly Dlls. I let it fix itself (it deleted the entries) and I then did a scan disk using Disk Doctor and then defragmented the disk and rebooted. This time I could dial-in, but couldn't get Outlook Express or Internet Explorer to work at all on any sites. I then went back to Norton Win Doctor and undid the changes I had just made and I'm back to square one. I can get to most sites, but not www.freerealtime or www.classmates.com and I get frequent crashes when clicking on certain links. I can almost tell when the crash is going to occur as the site will start to open and the hard disk will start to grind away and then crash and reboot. When I try to get to the two sites mentioned above, the lights on my external modem don't even flicker and I end up with a HTTP 400 (bad request) message.

I'm lost!!! If anyone has any suggestions (besides running out and buying a new computer) I'd be most grateful.

Many thanks,

Marty
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