Hi Pappy1943,
First let me say that I am happy that you realized that the registry cleaners aren't the best. I would like to know if you have any registry cleaners are still on your computer? If so can you post then in your next reply. No reg cleaners for almost a year now- have ccleaner which I don't use as that- just dealing with cookies, temps etc.
I would also like to know if you have tried shutting off your norton, to see if that makes a difference? If you have what are the results?. Yes in the last Norton thread I uninstalled Internet Security totally (with their uninstall tool); after that put router in DMZ; made sure windows firewall was off - still no connection (needless to say didn't do any browsing except for that check :grin1: ). Fyi AT&t said they weren't blocking my ports.
Cheers!