Serious Problem after applying XPSP2 + cannot download anything

[Ihab]

Dear Experts,

We upgraded all our winxp clients to SP2 and now no one can download
any kind of files from any site even intranet. The following error
message appears you try to download or save as:

"Internet Explorer cannot download....nameoffile etc
Internet Explorer was not able to open this Internet site. The
Requested
site is either unavailable or cannot be found. Please try again
later."

Any other version of Windows or WinXP SP1 all work ok.

after heavey searching on the internet i found some sites talking
about winsock problems, i downloaded all the files and fixes and
patches and applied everything and i still have the same problem.
tried winsockfixm lavasoftfix, LSP fix, tried netsh reset winsock all
of them with no change after reboot.
also i installed opera browser and it also cant download files so i
guess its not and IE problem
This is obviously an SP2 problem and is causing us a big trouble

i am really going crazy because of this and i am not willing to
reinstall 500 PC again with SP1 :)

Please HELP me experts

[kesava]

"Ihab" wrote:

> Dear Experts,
>
> We upgraded all our winxp clients to SP2 and now no one can download
> any kind of files from any site even intranet. The following error
> message appears you try to download or save as:
>
> "Internet Explorer cannot download....nameoffile etc
> Internet Explorer was not able to open this Internet site. The
> Requested
> site is either unavailable or cannot be found. Please try again
> later."
>
> Any other version of Windows or WinXP SP1 all work ok.
>
> after heavey searching on the internet i found some sites talking
> about winsock problems, i downloaded all the files and fixes and
> patches and applied everything and i still have the same problem.
> tried winsockfixm lavasoftfix, LSP fix, tried netsh reset winsock all
> of them with no change after reboot.
> also i installed opera browser and it also cant download files so i
> guess its not and IE problem
> This is obviously an SP2 problem and is causing us a big trouble
>
> i am really going crazy because of this and i am not willing to
> reinstall 500 PC again with SP1 :)
>
> Please HELP me experts
>

[kesava]

"Ihab" wrote:

> Dear Experts,
>
> We upgraded all our winxp clients to SP2 and now no one can download
> any kind of files from any site even intranet. The following error
> message appears you try to download or save as:
>

> "Internet Explorer cannot download....nameoffile etc
> Internet Explorer was not able to open this Internet site. The
> Requested
> site is either unavailable or cannot be found. Please try again
> later."
>
> Any other version of Windows or WinXP SP1 all work ok.
>
> after heavey searching on the internet i found some sites talking
> about winsock problems, i downloaded all the files and fixes and
> patches and applied everything and i still have the same problem.
> tried winsockfixm lavasoftfix, LSP fix, tried netsh reset winsock all
> of them with no change after reboot.
> also i installed opera browser and it also cant download files so i
> guess its not and IE problem
> This is obviously an SP2 problem and is causing us a big trouble
>
> i am really going crazy because of this and i am not willing to
> reinstall 500 PC again with SP1 :)
>
> Please HELP me experts
>

I don't know if this is going to help you, but I share your frustration with
you. I had all kinds of trouble after I installed SP@, and then finally
restored the system to a restore point prior to SP2 install date. Please
restore in SAFE mode, otherwise the restore may not work. After restoring, I
used the ADAWARE software to yank out all the spyware files sitting on my
ocmputer and it seems to work fine now. Of course I had to reinstall the few
programs I installed after the original SP2 installation. Hope this helps.
Good luck.