Everlong18
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I've read a few similiar problems on this forum, but the suggestions on there doesn't fix my problem.
The problem is I can only view some webpages in safe mode, webpages that have logins such as I have to run safe mode to be able to sign in for the technet forums, or I can only view my inbox at Gmail in safe mode. In normal mode I just get a DNS error saying the page is unavailable.
The problem started Monday when I came on the PC and noticed desktop shortcuts broken. Windows Live Messenger shortcut wasn't appearing, and a few shortcuts in the start menu had disappeared, run being one of them. So I restarted the PC and the Messenger shortcut had appeared again (run still hadn't). So I tried signing in to Messenger, but was told the service was unavailable.
I then started up IE (IE7 in Vista Ultimate to be precise), and went on over to the Star Wars Galaxies forums, where I had to login, so clicked the "sign in" link and entered my details. Clicked "log in" and a DNS error popped up, tried refereshing a few times and tried logging in again, but still DNS error. Now, I tried Gmail, but nothing. Just a DNS error.
I also noticed the IE7 phishing filter isn't available in normal mode eitherm only in safe mode. I get the message that the Microsoft service is temporarily unavailable.
I can connect to any other webpage without a login page on them, and the only forum I can also login too is lern2play.com, and this forum in normal mode with no problems.
I've tried resetting IE settings to default, tried another browser (Mozilla), the PC downstairs has no problems accessing the same pages, so can't be a router problem. I've done what other sites have suggested, such as virus scanning but that pulled nothing up, ran Ad-ware and SpyBot - Search and Destroy, but they only pulled tracking cookies up, which didn't fix the problem after deleting them. Hijack this did bring up a few Winsock problems, which can't be fixed
(If you are familier with Hijackthis, the problems are listed as O10 errors, but are unknown and appear as "O10 - Unknown file in Winsock LSP: c:\windows\system32\wpclsp.dll2 in the log. They can't be deleted, and I'm told to use a program called LPS to fix them, but LPS doesn't find any problems).
All this began when I came on my PC Monday, and was working fine the night before. All I can recall dong Sunday night/early hours of Monday was playing games online. Was playing Second Life up until about midnight, then began playing Halo 2 for an hour or so (I can't also login to the Live service for Halo 2 in normal mode).
I was hoping the monthly Microsoft malicious software scan that came out yesterday would pull something up, but nothing
I've been told to just format and reinstall everything, but I only have a Vista upgrade disk, so would need to start from XP slipstream disk then onto Vista.
Has anyone got any suggestions or solutions?
Cheers
The problem is I can only view some webpages in safe mode, webpages that have logins such as I have to run safe mode to be able to sign in for the technet forums, or I can only view my inbox at Gmail in safe mode. In normal mode I just get a DNS error saying the page is unavailable.
The problem started Monday when I came on the PC and noticed desktop shortcuts broken. Windows Live Messenger shortcut wasn't appearing, and a few shortcuts in the start menu had disappeared, run being one of them. So I restarted the PC and the Messenger shortcut had appeared again (run still hadn't). So I tried signing in to Messenger, but was told the service was unavailable.
I then started up IE (IE7 in Vista Ultimate to be precise), and went on over to the Star Wars Galaxies forums, where I had to login, so clicked the "sign in" link and entered my details. Clicked "log in" and a DNS error popped up, tried refereshing a few times and tried logging in again, but still DNS error. Now, I tried Gmail, but nothing. Just a DNS error.
I also noticed the IE7 phishing filter isn't available in normal mode eitherm only in safe mode. I get the message that the Microsoft service is temporarily unavailable.
I can connect to any other webpage without a login page on them, and the only forum I can also login too is lern2play.com, and this forum in normal mode with no problems.
I've tried resetting IE settings to default, tried another browser (Mozilla), the PC downstairs has no problems accessing the same pages, so can't be a router problem. I've done what other sites have suggested, such as virus scanning but that pulled nothing up, ran Ad-ware and SpyBot - Search and Destroy, but they only pulled tracking cookies up, which didn't fix the problem after deleting them. Hijack this did bring up a few Winsock problems, which can't be fixed
(If you are familier with Hijackthis, the problems are listed as O10 errors, but are unknown and appear as "O10 - Unknown file in Winsock LSP: c:\windows\system32\wpclsp.dll2 in the log. They can't be deleted, and I'm told to use a program called LPS to fix them, but LPS doesn't find any problems).
All this began when I came on my PC Monday, and was working fine the night before. All I can recall dong Sunday night/early hours of Monday was playing games online. Was playing Second Life up until about midnight, then began playing Halo 2 for an hour or so (I can't also login to the Live service for Halo 2 in normal mode).
I was hoping the monthly Microsoft malicious software scan that came out yesterday would pull something up, but nothing
I've been told to just format and reinstall everything, but I only have a Vista upgrade disk, so would need to start from XP slipstream disk then onto Vista.
Has anyone got any suggestions or solutions?
Cheers