Any tech guru's help me on this one (er...not to mention my post re: ageing laptop that can be found elsewhere! :D ;)).

 

Out of the blue last night I tried logging onto my hotmail and MySpace accounts and, although I can sign in, it won't load up either my InBox in the case of Hotmail (it loads the words "Inbox" and some of the items on the top bar but that's it) or my Main page (or Inbox) in the case of MySpace (pretty much the same deal as Hotmail, it loads the top bar and that's it!).

 

I'm using Firefox v3.0.10 and have checked my Firewall settings and the latter doesn't appear to be blocking them. I DID try switching to IE tonight using the Firefox plug-in "IE view" and I managed to get MySpace working fine however, with Hotmail, each time I log in I get a "The Page Cannot Be Displayed" white page. I went into Tools - Internet Options - Advanced and made sure SSL 2.0, SSL 3.0 and TLS 1.0 were checked but this did bVgger all.

 

Can anyone shed any light as to why this is suddenly happening and how to fix it?

 

I'm running XP service Pack 2 BTW...I thought it might have something to do with the Service Pack 3 update that just got installed but this weirdness started happening before that!

Are you connected to the internet via ADSL or cable?

are you connected to the internet via adsl or cable?

 

adsl :)

Ok, I "think" it's all down to Service Pack 3...Was in the middle of working on an advert commission in CS3 this afternoon and suddenly I started getting errors all over the place and could no longer open PSD files. More than a little worried I thought "S0d this" I'll try a System Restore again. I'd previously attempted 4 different roll backs and none of them worked. This time however, it did. And it took me back to SP2. And, lo and behold, no more errors AND I can now log onto Hotmail and MySpace with no problems! Can't understand it as I experienced problems before the installation of SP3 unless the culprit is an update prior to the installation? Anyhow, everything "seems" to be working again!