Ever since thursday, my connection stays up for about 45 minutes to an hour, then fails to refresh the IP, and the only way to fix it seems to be a system reboot. I thought this to be a problem related to the onboard network card, so I went and bought a PCI one, yet the problem persists. This is on a clean and reformatted XP Pro install.
I also get periodic "messenger service" popups saying my registry is corrupted and I need to go download some registry cleaner or whatever. I have Panda Titanium 2006 anti-virus, and it finds nothing, nor have scans with Adaware or Spybot S-D.
Ideas?
Strange connection problem
Moderator: Thanas
Messenger service should be disabled by going into the service control applet and stopping it, then changing it to manual startup. This will get rid of the pop-up spam.
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Install SP2
It sets the messenger service to disabled.
It sets the messenger service to disabled.
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"Either God wants to abolish evil, and cannot; or he can, but does not want to. ... If he wants to, but cannot, he is impotent. If he can, but does not want to, he is wicked. ... If, as they say, God can abolish evil, and God really wants to do it, why is there evil in the world?" -Epicurus
Fear is the mother of all gods.
Nature does all things spontaneously, by herself, without the meddling of the gods. -Lucretius