Older ThinkPad with Win98 and Office 2000 installed.
Installed NIS 2004 and everyone got along fine, for awhile, then a problem developed when I tried to open Outlook offline to organize the emails. It would not completely open offline (hung-up waiting for the NIS anti-spam toolbar to launch), so I uninstalled NIS.
Apparently, some residual pieces of NIS still had Outlook by the throat because it still wouldn't open fully, so I uninstalled Office and removed all traces of NIS, NAV, Norton and Symantec via Reg Seeker. Reinstalled Office and Outlook worked fine, offline, but it could not go on-line, either via the available wireless or dial-up connections, both of which showed active Icons in the Systems Tray. Nor could any other Internet-enabled application, Win98 could not find the open Internet connections.
It would appear that NIS, or some other dasterdly bug, still has the ability to block all access to the Internet connection, even via DOS. I can ping 127.0.0.1, but that is all. No pings get to the outside world.
I have checked all of the Network settings and read several solutions on how to resolve Winsock problems that were compromising DNS, TCP/IP settings, etc., but I don't believe those are my problem. I could not find anything about resolving a totally non-communicative connected system.
Anyone have any ideas on what the problem(s) could be and the process(s) I should use to eliminate it?
Installed NIS 2004 and everyone got along fine, for awhile, then a problem developed when I tried to open Outlook offline to organize the emails. It would not completely open offline (hung-up waiting for the NIS anti-spam toolbar to launch), so I uninstalled NIS.
Apparently, some residual pieces of NIS still had Outlook by the throat because it still wouldn't open fully, so I uninstalled Office and removed all traces of NIS, NAV, Norton and Symantec via Reg Seeker. Reinstalled Office and Outlook worked fine, offline, but it could not go on-line, either via the available wireless or dial-up connections, both of which showed active Icons in the Systems Tray. Nor could any other Internet-enabled application, Win98 could not find the open Internet connections.
It would appear that NIS, or some other dasterdly bug, still has the ability to block all access to the Internet connection, even via DOS. I can ping 127.0.0.1, but that is all. No pings get to the outside world.
I have checked all of the Network settings and read several solutions on how to resolve Winsock problems that were compromising DNS, TCP/IP settings, etc., but I don't believe those are my problem. I could not find anything about resolving a totally non-communicative connected system.
Anyone have any ideas on what the problem(s) could be and the process(s) I should use to eliminate it?