Outlook XP not able to connect to Internet - FIXED

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After a weekend of struggle with this issue of Outlook XP on Win2000 not
connecting to internet, timing out, etc. I am glad to announce that I
finally won :)

It seems way too many people have this kind of problem and nobody knows how
to fix it and Microsoft of course no damn about it.

So there it is - I tried everything from repair installation of Windows
2000, to manual removal of Outlook Express (yes that one stopped working too
during the battle). Very many people suggest that it's Norton Antivirus. But
disabling email checking and even uninstalling it did not do it for me. What
did it was removing of firewall ZoneAlarm ! After removing it, I noticed
that at least hotmail email started working. After that I had to click on
"use default settings" for one of the accounts that still did not work.

Anyways, for some reason Outlook XP does not like anything that could stand
in a way of Internet connection.
 
ZoneAlarms causes a LOT of problems... I guess you're kind of stuck if
you're not on Windows XP. I use XP's built in firewall and have never had
issues like that. I used to use ZA and it was always screwing things up (it
used to randomly crash IIS on one of our servers for no apparent reason. We
upgraded to Server 2003 and used the built in firewall and the problems went
away).
 
After a weekend of struggle with this issue of Outlook XP on Win2000 not
connecting to internet, timing out, etc. I am glad to announce that I
finally won :)

It seems way too many people have this kind of problem and nobody knows how
to fix it and Microsoft of course no damn about it.

So there it is - I tried everything from repair installation of Windows
2000, to manual removal of Outlook Express (yes that one stopped working too
during the battle). Very many people suggest that it's Norton Antivirus. But
disabling email checking and even uninstalling it did not do it for me. What
did it was removing of firewall ZoneAlarm ! After removing it, I noticed
that at least hotmail email started working. After that I had to click on
"use default settings" for one of the accounts that still did not work.

Anyways, for some reason Outlook XP does not like anything that could stand
in a way of Internet connection.
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Just FYI - *many* people use ZoneAlarm with Outlook 2002 with no
problem. I would look in other areas for what originally caused your
problem, although, now that it sounds as if it's working, you probably
don't care anymore. :)
--
Rich Cervenka
Chicago, Illinois, USA
Email Client: Microsoft Outlook 2002
News Client (Text): Forté Agent 1.93 www.forteinc.com
News Client (Binaries): News Rover 9.1.2 www.newsrover.com
 
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