Hi. I've been working on beating this problem for about 2 months now with no headway or major steps back. I hope someone here can help.
The start to this problem is the Network Stack corruption. Ping to IP works instantly. NSLookup works instantly. Ping to Domain takes EXACTLY 60 seconds at the resolution stage, then continues. I've monitored the process, and ping.exe is getting a DNS response immediately and then not acting for 60 seconds.
This problem is causing update to not work, is causing Steam to be painfully slow, and numerous other issues.
I would like to Repair-in-place, but I only have RTM discs and an SP1 system. I know this isn't a Windows Update forum, but I'm wondering if most of the WUD stuff is failing because the OS underneath is pooched.
I can't run SFC because the system cannot be restarted.
I get errors on running the Update Readiness Tool.
Am I missing something? Anything in particular I should try?
