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Norton and Microsoft
Having spent four hours sorting out a software incompatibility between Norton and Microsoft firewall systems, I should be forgiven for being a little dissonant. The solution was to forget trying to figure what was wrong between these great systems. I uninstalled Norton and then reinstalled it. Now I have my internet back.
Norton popups remind you that it wants you to download the latest files, which I did earlier, but did not agree to reboot. Instead I closed with window using the x box. Well my system rebooted in any event, as if in defiance. After that I could not get my internet to run without completely uninstalling Norton and rebooting.
I only mention these things in the event that you may have a similar issue.
Microsoft Messenger and Systems Live with Google
Microsoft has its own issues and I found that my system worked when I uninstalled Windows live and Messenger when I wished to have Google running smoothly. Wonder why?