Posted on 12/23/2008 5:55:03 PM PST by Labyrinthos
For the last three weeks, I have had difficulty accessing Free Republic from my office desktop computer. Although I can connect at times, more often than not, I get the the "Internet Explorer cannot display the webpage," error message. I do not have a problem connecting with other websites
I am running Win XP/SP 3. I know my employer has not blocked access, because I own the business. I am also able to access Free Republic using other PC's on the office network, including my notebook PC. I have tried just about everything that I can think of including system restore; disabling firewalls, Spybot S & D, Adware, and Windows Defender; uninstalling Norton Internet Security 2009 (using the Norton Removal Tool and two different registry cleaners); clearing cookies, history, temporary internet files, and other cache files.
The only thing left that I can think of is that I have disabled many of the worthless "services" that run in the background and slow the system to a crawl and sometimes I kill one too many. However, I am unaware of any particular service that would effect access to s single website, as opposed to the Interet in general.
Any ideas?
One of us is.
Of course, neither of us really wanted to be.
Just a couple of stand-up guys.
I could have said that as well, until M$ released a patch which blocked internet access. I had to turn off the automatic updates after I got that one fixed.
But, if you have no problems, perhaps you should upgrade to Vista to get some for free.
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