[BNM] IE not working!! MS $h*te.....

[Alan Braddish]

Anyone ever had a problem with IE where when you open the browser, it
doesn't connect to the internet?  I sometimes have to attempt to open IE 5
or 6 times before it will finally 'register' that the internet connection is
there and load a page.

It originally started happening with IE7, and I hoped the upgrade to IE8
would have fixed the issue.

I did have IE7Pro installed, but it was working fine with that, then one day
it started giving me this strange behaviour.  

I have disabled any and all plugins, but the problem persists.

It's rather annoying as I can't always view HTML emails in Outlook as that
relies on IE being able to access the internet.  Sometimes it will work
sometimes it won't.

Is there anything I can do short of reinstalling the whole of XP?

Many thanks.
Alan