need help from techie type people
 

okay, I am not at all techie but can repeat to my hubby any suggestions.

We run on a network. My husband's computer is the main server and we have my computer and two laptops accessing the 'net through the network (adsl).

For some reason this week all of the computers EXCEPT the main computer are having a weird and highly frustrating problem with connecting to websites. The problem appears to be fairly random. For example, I will have no problem loading the front page of yahoo.com but when I try to click any of the news links or the sign in link it will crawl painfully at the bottom of the browser and never connect. I've had it where on my own domains I can access one page fine but then I can't access another that is in the same directory and which I know is there. It is happening all day and really slowing me down. It was annoying but now I find one of the sites I can't load is comission junction so it is now a matter of importance.

We have virused scanned, spyware scanned, etc. The problem happens with both IE and Netscape. We don't know why this would be other than guessing it may have something to do with proxies. We are running XP.

Any suggestions would be much appreciated.

... women should stay away from computers, your place is in the kitchen.

i second that

No way.........I like them in the bedroom too :Graucho

#1..click Control alt and delete at the same time...

If you have winmgmt...hidserv or rundll32 in there...end those and it will work until the next time you get on there. Your Nortons or whatever you are running will not pick them up.

#2 try shuting everything off and leaving it unpluged for a few minutes...maybe your adsl is a little messed up and needs reset.

Maybe this will help...we have the same setup and this is the problems we have.

Deeprub

I'm feeling kind so I will refrain from telling you to get a mac.

thanks for being so helpful :) I used to be a mac chick but married into a PC family. If I even look at a mac funny he gives me a lecture.


Deeprub - checked for those programs and they weren't there, thanks.