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Windows XP-SP3; Web access is only the first 10 or 15 minutes of each
session.
Besides planning to do a repair install on windows XP SP3, I'm also
trying to solve my XP problem one symptom at a time.
(When my problem first started, it took 15 minutes to start windows,
and when Windows started, it ran 10 times as slow as normal, and it
would not access the web or the rest of the internet. In order to get
this far, I used msconfig.exe and unchecked every Service and every
start-up program. I have rechecked every service except Shell
Hardware Detection and Uninterruptable Power Supply.
In Firefox, I disable every add-on.)
I have Verizon DSL (which gives me no problem 99.99% of the time when
using win98SE on the same box).
RIGHT NOW, most of XP works all the time, and at normal speed, and all
or almost all of the rest works some of the time (and at normal
speed).
SPECIFICALLY, web access works only for the first 10 or 15 minutes
after Windows XP-SP3 has started. This includes IE6 and FF3. The
messages are something like Server not Found, or a blank screen with
the word "done" on the line at the bottom. This includes efforts to
fetch the same url l that I got successfully just a couple minutes
ago. Watching a video on Utube worked, once for 8 minutes, and
another time, when I had done something else first, it only rant for 2
minutes. Then it just stopped. I could still move the cursor and
click on things which would take me to a blank screen with a new url
in the location box at the top, but nothing will load.
OTOH, POP email and Usenet work all the time.
The rest is more examples of programs that do the same sort of thing.
Eudora email works all the time, but emails in html which include
graphics that have urls won't download except during those first 10 or
15 minutes. Emails I look at after that just sit there with blue space
where the graphic is supposed to be.
Windows updates seem to download, but if it's possible to do so in
multiple windows sessions, that's what's happening. It may be doing
part of the DL in the first 10 minutes of each session. When it
completes the dl, it correctly installs the updates when I exit
Windows. 3 of them last night, several others 4 or 5 days ago.
From win98, I dl'd a newer release of AVG, but installed it in XP.
It's been able to update its own virus definitions, automatically
yesterday, but when I tried late last night, the dl failed in the
middle. Come to think of it, that had happened several times before,
and I guess it happens when the 10 or 15 minute time limit is passed.
Agent will download from Usenet all the time.
Spybot S&D won't dl new definitions, but it's a low-priority program
and I've probably never tried during the first 15 minutes.
Thanks a lot for any help you can give.
session.
Besides planning to do a repair install on windows XP SP3, I'm also
trying to solve my XP problem one symptom at a time.
(When my problem first started, it took 15 minutes to start windows,
and when Windows started, it ran 10 times as slow as normal, and it
would not access the web or the rest of the internet. In order to get
this far, I used msconfig.exe and unchecked every Service and every
start-up program. I have rechecked every service except Shell
Hardware Detection and Uninterruptable Power Supply.
In Firefox, I disable every add-on.)
I have Verizon DSL (which gives me no problem 99.99% of the time when
using win98SE on the same box).
RIGHT NOW, most of XP works all the time, and at normal speed, and all
or almost all of the rest works some of the time (and at normal
speed).
SPECIFICALLY, web access works only for the first 10 or 15 minutes
after Windows XP-SP3 has started. This includes IE6 and FF3. The
messages are something like Server not Found, or a blank screen with
the word "done" on the line at the bottom. This includes efforts to
fetch the same url l that I got successfully just a couple minutes
ago. Watching a video on Utube worked, once for 8 minutes, and
another time, when I had done something else first, it only rant for 2
minutes. Then it just stopped. I could still move the cursor and
click on things which would take me to a blank screen with a new url
in the location box at the top, but nothing will load.
OTOH, POP email and Usenet work all the time.
The rest is more examples of programs that do the same sort of thing.
Eudora email works all the time, but emails in html which include
graphics that have urls won't download except during those first 10 or
15 minutes. Emails I look at after that just sit there with blue space
where the graphic is supposed to be.
Windows updates seem to download, but if it's possible to do so in
multiple windows sessions, that's what's happening. It may be doing
part of the DL in the first 10 minutes of each session. When it
completes the dl, it correctly installs the updates when I exit
Windows. 3 of them last night, several others 4 or 5 days ago.
From win98, I dl'd a newer release of AVG, but installed it in XP.
It's been able to update its own virus definitions, automatically
yesterday, but when I tried late last night, the dl failed in the
middle. Come to think of it, that had happened several times before,
and I guess it happens when the 10 or 15 minute time limit is passed.
Agent will download from Usenet all the time.
Spybot S&D won't dl new definitions, but it's a low-priority program
and I've probably never tried during the first 15 minutes.
Thanks a lot for any help you can give.