Cannot access microsoft.com site, incl. WU

Question

Have read several entries in the forum re trouble accessing windows update (WU). I have just replaced the HDD in my Inspiron 2600, (re-)installed XP and updated appropriate drivers. I can access a number of web sites (e.g. google.com comes up in seconds while support.dell.com took 11 minutes to load) but cannot access ANY microsoft site. Per other postings in the forum, I have turned off the windows firewall, set IE security level to LOW, put *.microsoft.com as a Trusted site, etc. All to no avail. I have checked and unchected IE>Tools>Options>Connections>LAN Settings>Automatically detect settings - no difference. Not sure what else to try.

mombodog · Answer

Make sure the TCP/IPv6  protocol did not get installed.   Properties on 'Local Area Connection'  if it is in there, remove V6

85rx-7se · Answer

I have TCP/IP V6 installed and can get to Any Microsoft
site from any Browser (IE7 / Netscape 7 / Firefox 2.0.0.1 / Opera 9.01)
and also from either the Microsoft or Windows Update button on the
Start Menu ... so I do not believe that to be the case

More likely it is a Firewall Issue or perhaps run the Winsock Fix XP

http://www.majorgeeks.com/download4372.html

or a corrupted Hosts File

mombodog · Answer

Clarify, should not be installed side by side with v4

myforumid · Answer

IPv6 not installed

myforumid · Answer

I'm running IE6.0.2900.2180.xpsp_sp2_rtm.040803.2158. Is there a way to revert to an older version? Would it help? Where might I find it?

myforumid · Answer

@85rx-7se wrote:
I have TCP/IP V6 installed and can get to Any Microsoft
site from any Browser (IE7 / Netscape 7 / Firefox 2.0.0.1 / Opera 9.01)
and also from either the Microsoft or Windows Update button on the
Start Menu ... so I do not believe that to be the case

More likely it is a Firewall Issue or perhaps run the Winsock Fix XP

http://www.majorgeeks.com/download4372.html

or a corrupted Hosts File

host files look clean - only entry in HOSTS is "127.0.0.1 localhost"
LMHOSTS.SAM has not been modified

Ran Winsock Fix XP - no change.

myforumid · Answer

Can anyone provide me a list of dlls that must be registered for IE?

myforumid · Answer

Solved the problem.
* registered msjava.dll (at command prompt: regsvr32 msjava.dll )
* Used DRTCPIP from http://www.dslreports.com/drtcp to adjustment the RWIN and MTU settings (to 39760 and 1492, respectively).
* reboot and MS websites came up nearly instantly.

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