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To: Martin E. Frankel who wrote (20296)	6/7/2001 1:23:15 PM
From: PMS Witch	Respond to of 110653

A couple of suggestions... Boot your system into Safe Mode and see if the problem persists. In Internet Options, Advanced Tab, uncheck the stuff that gives you a 'rich' Internet experience (Animation, Java, Multi-Media, Auto stuff, and the like...) and try things Plain Jane. See if the problem persists. Last suggestion, and the hardest, would be to download the problem page and hack it to pieces with an editor. When you discover the bit that's giving you the grief, you can concentrate your effort. Cheers, PW.

To: Martin E. Frankel who wrote (20296)	6/7/2001 1:30:44 PM
From: mr.mark	Respond to of 110653

hi marty re, "If anyone has any suggestions (besides running out and buying a new computer) I'd be most grateful" running the internet connection wizard manually may help... "Windows Cannot Find Program.exe" Error Accessing Web Page support.microsoft.com this explains why you couldn't find the ie repair tool... The Repair Internet Explorer Tool Is Missing support.microsoft.com re, "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.".... this is not acceptable, imo. i would call them back and the instant i could not keep up, i would insist that they slow down, back up, start over, whatever. but it's incumbent upon YOU to make sure that they assist you properly. don't you agree? :) mark

To: Martin E. Frankel who wrote (20296)	6/7/2001 1:41:04 PM
From: Nemer	Respond to of 110653

Marty .... these are easy to try, and mayhaps "might help" .... Start/Control Panel/Internet Options/Advanced/Restore Defaults/OK/Apply .... Start/Control Panel/Internet Options/Security/Default Level/Apply Start/Control Panel/ Internet Options/General/Settings/every visit to the page/Apply/OK/Apply you probably need to copy down the boxes you have checked, for selecting default could change them .... hang in there .... sooner or later this thread will fix it ...... ps ... there are some nice NEW boxes on the market pretty cheap ..... hehehehe

To: Martin E. Frankel who wrote (20296)	6/7/2001 1:50:54 PM
From: bosquedog	Respond to of 110653

Have you tried netscape or opera yet?

To: Martin E. Frankel who wrote (20296)	6/7/2001 2:18:57 PM
From: Graystone	Respond to of 110653

Simple Tests or While you're at it. Try this, open up am MS-DOS window and type the following command >ping www.freerealtime.com You should get back something like this Pinging freerealtime.com [63.104.51.246] with 32 bytes of data: Reply from 63.104.51.246: bytes=32 time=231ms TTL=242 Reply from 63.104.51.246: bytes=32 time=205ms TTL=242 Reply from 63.104.51.246: bytes=32 time=206ms TTL=242 Reply from 63.104.51.246: bytes=32 time=203ms TTL=242 Ping statistics for 63.104.51.246: Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss), Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds: Minimum = 203ms, Maximum = 231ms, Average = 211ms If that doesn't work it is important to record the message you receive back. They could vary : "Request timed out" "Destination host unreachable" "Destination net unreachable" I have encountered situations where a modem that functioned fine on one ISP's system did not work on another. I am guessing that you have not changed ISP's though, did you add any other hardware or software ? Piss somebody off ? <g> (DenialOfService functions in a similar manner.) #reply-5261511 PS Both Nemer's and bosquedog's solutions are good ones as well