{"id":46,"date":"2005-01-13T11:38:42","date_gmt":"2005-01-13T01:38:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davidandkiyomi.com\/bloodandsoil\/2005\/01\/13\/internet-exploder-can-go-and-take-a-flying-leap\/"},"modified":"2024-08-22T00:53:23","modified_gmt":"2024-08-21T14:53:23","slug":"internet-exploder-can-go-and-take-a-flying-leap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidandkiyomi.com\/bloodandsoil\/2005\/01\/13\/internet-exploder-can-go-and-take-a-flying-leap\/","title":{"rendered":"Internet Exploder can go and take a flying leap."},"content":{"rendered":"

After stuffing around on Kiyomi’s laptop for the past two days I have finally found what was causing the problem (which was causing me to rip my hair out) and how to fix it.<\/p>\n

Having rebuilt her Windows XP (Home) laptop after a nasty homepage hijacker got into the system (Thank you SO much Micro$oft for making unsafe\/insecure software), and re-installing various programmes and utilities I tried to access it from my own XP (Pro) machine – no luck. UNC paths – ppffthh…, Tried to ping her PC’s hostname – zilch, I could ping her IP address though which really threw me – I tried to renew her IP address and got an error about NetPT not being started. Ah-ha! Checked the event viewer and sure enough it hadn’t started for some wacky reason. Did a web search and found the following page:<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.techspot.com\/vb\/archive\/index\/t-9007.html<\/a><\/p>\n

Which was exactly what I was after. Seems that one of the Utils mentioned in the techspot article disabled NetBT (Don’t know which one), I followed the instructions, changed the registry and, bang!, I could ping Kiyomi’s PC’s hostname too. Problem solved. (Phew)<\/p>\n

As a result of this, she is no longer going to use IE (Internet Exploder) on the PC. Added a few extra spyware and adware utils to keep the laptop healthy.<\/p>\n

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