From: "Geo." 

No error message, I would click on it and get the spinning donut (what the
hell is that supposed to be anyway, the hourglass signifies time but a
spinning psychedelic donut?) then that would end and nothing would happen.
No errors in event log, nothing. Same with right clicking on
network/properties, spinning donut then nothing. I telneted to my router,
removed the routes and within a couple minutes both worked again. No
reboot, no nothing happened on the laptop.

Prior to this I had tried rebooting several times, didn't help, but once I
removed the null routes then it started working again.

Geo.

"Rich"  wrote in message news:45972cf9{at}w3.nls.net...
   "Wasn't able to play spider solitaire" how?  What was the error message?

Rich

  "Geo."  wrote in message
news:45971e6d{at}w3.nls.net...
  So I had blocked vista from talking to MS for the past few days via a
series
  of null routes in my router. Today I wasn't able to play spider solitare,
  removed the routes and a minute later solitare starts up no problem.

  You know, I'm really starting to hate this dumb OS.

  Geo.

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