Network Interface Card not connecting: Window XP

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Roger Zimmerman

Hi,

My network card will not connect to the network.

It just sits there with the light moving back and forth, trying to
connect.

Here is the background:

- I have a 2.5GHz PC with Windows XP
- The network interface was previously working fine.
- I accidentally turned on my firewall in my Shaw security, and that's
seems to be approx. when my network stopped working (but I am not 100%
sure this was the reason).
- I did the following things, one by one to try to get the network to
connect:
1. unload shaw security, next I removed shaw secure completely
2. turned off the windows firewall (note that it would not turn off
the regular way, I had to run services.msc to turn it off)
3. I turned off windows security completely (from services.msc)
4. I tried adjusting setting in properties for the Local Area
Connection, I tried turning off all services except TCP/IP, and varied
other settings as many ways as reasonable.

Also: I know that my network works, because on the same computer I put
in a HDD with Linux and it connects no problem. Then I removed the
HDD, and went back to my HDD with Windows on it.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

Roger
 
Some additional information to this problem.

Now I notice that on start up I get:

Kaspersky Anti Hacker
Error Initializing Windows Sockets

Anyone know how to fix this?

Thanks

Roger
 
P.S.

I also did a complete run of System Mechanic 6 pro.

And I ran a TCP/IP reset Help utility from Microsoft.

Roger,
 
P.S.

I also did a complete run of System Mechanic 6 pro.

And I ran a TCP/IP reset Help utility from Microsoft.

Roger,
Click to expand...

Lookd like Kaspersky Anti Hacker may be the cause. Look at how to set
XP to start-up without have "stuff" auto-start (aka "clean boot.')
Then, look at starting up the applications you have "stopped" from
auto-starting, one after the other, until your problem occurs again.
This would tell you which application is causing the "blocking."
 
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