Check with your ISP to see if your firewall, if you have one, needs to be reset with a permission to the ISP (perhaps an update for IE6 kicked it out?). I have satellite modem service and use XP, and it requires the XP firewall enabled with starband included in the permissable list, or it also will reboot my computer if I try to connect to the net without the setting in place.
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This just started a couple of days ago but I can't figure out why this is. I'm wondering if reinstalling IE will fix this but I'm open to suggestions. Thanks
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