Glad to hear you got it fixed. I should have warned you that the winsock fix doesn't give much indication it did anything...other than if it...
There are a LOT of links to Microsoft Knowledge Base articles on this page. Take a look to see if any address the specific problem you're having.
The "about every 5-10 minutes" part might be due to your email program. Outlook Express has a setting in Tools>Options>Connections tab, "Hang...
It sounds to me like that system's Winsock is damaged. I've used the file found here (sorry it's a direct link to the download, couldn't...
Take a look at "Internet Shortcuts in Outlook Express Do Not Start Web Browser ".
Copied from Annoyances.org: Turn Off the CD-ROM Autorun Windows XP - Solution 1 Right-click on the drive icon for your CD drive, CD...
Microsoft Knowledge Base Article 312351 says: SYMPTOMS When you view messages in Outlook Express 5.x, the body of the message may be blank and...
XP accesses the "My Pictures" folder (C:\Documents and Settings\Your User Name\My Documents\My Pictures) for the desktop background and shows...
Go to this page on Sun's site and click on the "Download now - it's free!" link. That should download and install Sun's version of java.
Take a look at http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;171908 and http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;246186
Copied from ItIsTrue.org: There is a hidden icon cache file in your windows directory, ShellIconCache, which contains a copy of all the default...
Did you have a look on the startup tab in msconfig? There might be something there to give you a clue as to what "bwgo" is...and msconfig shows...
Take a look at this page and see if their free utility will do what you need. If not, try a Google search for "ICS open ports "...which is...
Since I always go for the simplest things first, do a search for and delete the file, "ShellIconCache" and reboot. Windows will rebuild a shiny...
This may not be the most elegant solution, since I'm no graphics expert, but it's the way I'd do it. I'd copy each picture into a blank canvas...
For some unknown reason, Outlook Express will only export messages to either Outlook (Outlook Express's big brother) or MS Exchange. Given the...
Open any folder, then go to Tools>Folder Options>View tab, scroll down and make sure that "Remember each folder's view settings" is checked.
Take a look at the download on this page. The author says it will do what you're wanting to do...along with a few other things.
Simple things first...empty the browser's cache. A corrupted file in there and IE chokes. Then empty Temporary Internet Fiiles...easiest to do...
It may be that it's not the Inbox that's corrupted, but the Deleted Items folder. Try deleting that and see if the problem is resolved.
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