I have a problem and hopefully someone can help me. I was having some problem with my IE (a lot of webpages show up wih "done but with error"), I then tried to repair xp by 1. run the xp installation disc, 2. press enter on the first screen, 3. after it detected my current installation I choose repair. All went well untill the repair was done and reboot. I can no longer get a connection, my original connection (using a adsl modem and pppoe protocol) was gone and I can no longer add one, the wizard is there but the connect to internet via pppoe is grey out. The pppoe protocol was not there and I cannot manually add it. I choose add protocol but there are no pppoe to choose out. Do I need to reinstall the whole thing? Or can I just fix my network connection + IE? Thanks in advance.

See Microsoft article ID 320558. Error 404 - You have spent too much time on the net.

Thanks, I will try it tonight and let you know of result. After reading thru all those I guess it was casued by restoring to older system files then sp2. I have sp2 on system but I think the installation disc revert it back to older version. BTW, is there anyway to just reinstall IE other than doing the xp repair? I have tried to uninstall IE but couldn't, tried to d/l from microsoft but they only have IE with SP1 (which won't run becuz of older version that the one I have installed)

IE is an integral part of XP, and you can't unload it by itself. Error 404 - You have spent too much time on the net.

Actually you can uninstall it if you go into Add/Remove Programs, Windows Components and unceck IE, but I would not suggest doing so unless you plan to come right back and reinstall it after reboot.

Tried method 1 of the MS article, didn't work. Guess I would have to delete the whole telephony key and perform an "upgrade" after reboot. Maybe I will just reinstall the whole thing, the "upgrade" is what got me to this in the first place, not sure if it will work the 2nd time. Anyone with better suggestion?? If I can of course I will try my best to avoid the pain of going thru the whole install....