IE6 going "Off-line" with Cable Connection.

[Kenneth.williams]

I had my EIDE 250 GB hard drive wiped & loaded with WinXP. I went out to
windows upate & downloaded all WinXP critial patches as of 10 Oct 2009. I am
using the IE6 which comes with WinXP. For the first time (having loaded
Windows many times in the past), the Internet explorer is going "Offline" if
I sit on one web page to long. There are two button on the popup message -
the "Work Offine" button and the "Retry" button. If I press the "Retry"
button, the requested page comes up normally, and off I go until the next
time out.

I have already gone into the property of the network connection and
unchecked the box that allow "this device to be turned off to save enegy". I
have also added the Keep Active registry entery and set it to 1200000 (not
sure on number of zeros off the top of my head).

Office 2003, Partition Magic, Roxio, AVG, Malwarebits, etc.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

 

[nass]

I had my EIDE 250 GB hard drive wiped & loaded with WinXP. I went out to
windows upate & downloaded all WinXP critial patches as of 10 Oct 2009. I am
using the IE6 which comes with WinXP. For the first time (having loaded
Windows many times in the past), the Internet explorer is going "Offline" if
I sit on one web page to long. There are two button on the popup message -
the "Work Offine" button and the "Retry" button. If I press the "Retry"
button, the requested page comes up normally, and off I go until the next
time out.

I have already gone into the property of the network connection and
unchecked the box that allow "this device to be turned off to save enegy". I
have also added the Keep Active registry entery and set it to 1200000 (not
sure on number of zeros off the top of my head).

Office 2003, Partition Magic, Roxio, AVG, Malwarebits, etc.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Your winsock may be damaged/corrupted by somehow and making the connection
inconstant and knocking you out of the internet.

Try this:
1... Click start >> Control Panel >> Double Click Network and Internet
Connections >> Double click Internet Options, on the IE Properties window
you will see these Options:
General | Security | Privacy | Content | Connections | Programs
| Advanced .

Click on General Tab (1st Tab on the left) and you will see a Button called
[ Clear History ..] click on it to clear your History caches, then click on
[Delete Files..] to delete Internet Files created over the time, click on [
Delete Cookies...] to delete your cookies left by visiting websites.

Then click on Advanced tab and scroll down to under the Browsing Option:
[&] Browsing
[ ] Enable Third-Party browser extensions (Req Rest) uncheck this box.
= Then try to Disable the Add-Ons on your Browser somehow installed on your

click [OK] to save your changes and proceed with the next step:

Open a run command and type in:
cmd.exe click [OK]
on the command prompt type:
ipconfig /flushdns Hit [Enter] on your keyboard
ipconfig /renew Hit [Enter] on your keyboard
netsh winosck reset Hit [Enter] on your keyboard

Then type Exit to quit the command prompt, then reboot your machine.
What happen when you surf the net?
Note the command above may take a while to register so be patient!

BTW any third-party toolbars installed on the browser?

HTH,
nass