[pchelpers] Re: Timeout using Firefox or IE

John Durham wrote:
> Cy Halbach wrote:
>   
>> Hopefully short of becoming a big pain, I'm looking for any additional 
>> information that might be available.
>>
>> Is there an easy way to get a log or list of the files that are opened 
>> during boot up?
>> Same system XP Home - Current conditions:
>> 1. If I boot up in Safe mode  I can ping the Internet in a DOS window 
>> and get a response.
>> 2. In Safe mode I can also Open Firefox or IE and access the Internet.
>> 3. In normal mode, even when I disable all the items in startup using 
>> msconfig,  access to the Internet fails.
>>
>> Prior to finding this out I tried a new Ethernet card to no avail. 
>> Actually both cards work in safe mode.
>> Appreciate any further words of wisdom you might have
>>
>> Cy
>>     
> Reason suggests that since safe mode only uses a subset of the files 
> needed for windows, the basic ones are ok. It also infers that one or 
> more of the others is corrupt or being interfered with. Registry may be 
> ok as well (you can probably run registry fixing utilities in safe 
> mode). Those things aside it is important to give attention to the other 
> system files by running
> scandisk (thorough), then how about SFC  /SCANNOW to repair the files? 
> Once normal mode behaves more normally it should be reasonable to use 
> the connection wizard to create a new connection for you.
>
>   
Thanks John,

    Good idea, will give it a shot.  Scandisk does not work on Windows 
XP  but the SFC /scannow works.

Cy



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