Master Browser network problems

[ericcbrown1]

So I run a D-Link wireless router, connected to it is a single hardwired computer, and an access point. Only two other computers connect wirelessly.

I run this computer directly to it via hard connection, and it has one ethernet card and is running windows XP SP2, and the other two computers run XP SP1/SP2

What is happening, is that : now more frequently: This computer will still have internet, but I cannot :Google: Things, or login to things like mail.google.com and be able to view my emails.
I can ping yahoo.com, but cannot visit the site..

But I CAN go to sites like Banking..

i've tried regedit and changing my computer to be set as the Master browser, followed up with nbtstat -RR, and sometimes it works but sometimes it doesnt.

The only sure-fire way I've seemed to fix it momentarily everytime is by doing a System restore.


Looking at my error logs, i've pin pointed a few that may or may not help...

The COM+ Event System detected a bad return code during its internal processing. HRESULT was 800706BA from line 44 of d:\qxp_slp\com\com1x\src\events\tier1\eventsystemo bj.cpp. Please contact Microsoft Product Support Services to report this error.


The master browser has received a server announcement from the computer ERIC that believes that it is the master browser for the domain on transport NetBT_Tcpip_{8C8CD780-D1A8-4163-XXXX (<- just in case)}. The master browser is stopping or an election is being forced.


Any ideas would be absolutely wonderful and very appreciated.
Thanks!
-Eric

[Sterling_Aug]

What anti-virus or snti-spyware software are you running?

It sounds like a corrupt Windows install to me. There is NO REASON to be futsing around with the registry and the master browser settings. They have no impact on being able to browse the Internet. The master browser is used to communicate on your network between computers, not browse the Internet.

[ericcbrown1]

interesting...

I run spybot, superantispyware, and AVG.

[Midknyte]

superantispyware is decent, but the freeware version doesn't have active protection. You'd need something like Counterspy for that.

sounds like something got corrupted in your tcpip stack. try running winsockxp fix. the link is in the AV/Antispy sticky.