hello com/pete
basicially this is what I did see what you think
Problem: IE8 does not work
Am running winxp 32bit IE8.
I am using wireless broadband, router is a netgear wnr2000
the story goes... IE8 was running fine. I decided to burn a home movie to dvd but did not have the software. So I downloaded free shampoo(burning software) and when it installed, it also installed Google Chrome, I did not have a choice to refuse G\Chrome.
I think at this time IE stopped working. My broadband is perfect but IE cannot open a page. when I diagnose it windows did not detect any problems
as you can see below
Last diagnostic run time: 12/03/10 20:38:18 HTTP, HTTPS, FTP Diagnostic
HTTP, HTTPS, FTP connectivity
info HTTP: Successfully connected to
www.microsoft.com.
info FTP (Passive): Successfully connected to ftp.microsoft.com.
info HTTPS: Successfully connected to
www.microsoft.com.
I disabled add-ons to see but no joy ,there are only a couple anyway. I restored advanced settings to default aswell but no joy.
I then removed the Shampoo software and it automaticially removed Google Chrome (I was not able to remove GC on its own).
I un-installed IE8, re-installed it but no joy. I un-installed it again and installed IE7. and no joy.
I have Mozilla Firefox on an ext. drive so I installed it and its working fine. As i have several programs that use IE its difficult to work arround.
I have no idea what to do next. If you can give me some direction here it would be very much appreciated.
cheers
don3030