Re: Win98 not talking to network; however, ping from command does

Turn off your firewall.


"Randy Hammock" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:17c801c33dc5$a3fcc810$(E-Mail Removed)...
> I'm working on a system for a friend running Win98SE which
> suddenly stopped talking to the network. None of the
> Windows Apps can talk to the network; however, if I bring
> up a command prompt, I can ping system on the Internet and
> winipcfg shows good information that it is talking OK.
>
> I've run the AVG Anti-virus, nothing found. I ran AdAware
> and removed 175 spyware files and such.
>
> Any suggestions?
> --
> Randy Hammock

Afraid no firewall. In cleaning up the system I found that
it did have Kazaa and all of it's attendant "Brilliant
Digital Entertainment (BDE)" baggage. I'm curious if BDE
corrupted some of the network files. I told my friend that
Kazaa was a bad thing and her kids just went right on
using it.
>-----Original Message-----
>Turn off your firewall.
>
>
>"Randy Hammock" wrote in message
>news:17c801c33dc5$a3fcc810$(E-Mail Removed)...
>> I'm working on a system for a friend running Win98SE
which
>> suddenly stopped talking to the network. None of the
>> Windows Apps can talk to the network; however, if I
bring
>> up a command prompt, I can ping system on the Internet
and
>> winipcfg shows good information that it is talking OK.
>>
>> I've run the AVG Anti-virus, nothing found. I ran
AdAware
>> and removed 175 spyware files and such.
>>
>> Any suggestions?
>> --
>> Randy Hammock
>
>
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