so I decided to clamp down my firewall as at test by uncheck many applications access.
I uncheck a lot then less and less until I turned them all back on.
Now I only have internet access (i cannot even ping) if I turn the security low.
if I could set all back to default maybe that would help.
I do not have time to mess around.
the microsoft instant messenger troubleshooter tells me that there is a problem with my DNS and my Key ports.
it also says my ip gateway, ie's offline setting Host file and proxy server checks out fine.
