Thanks! I too signed up for this hot fix. I haven't yet received it. Let's hope it works.

Whoops! Sorry, this fix wouldn't work for me. I check my ICS properties indicate:
Startup type: Disabled
Service Status: Stopped

Any other suggestions?

According to Microsoft Customer Service:

"Hotfix described in KB article 937168 is included in Service Pack 1.
As you already have Service Pack 1, I recommend contacting Microsoft Support Professional at (800) 936-5700 for further assistance. The working hours are Monday - Friday 5:00 A.M. - 9:00 P.M. Pacific Time, Saturday - Sunday 6:00 A.M. - 3:00 P.M. Pacific Time. I hope the issue is resolved soon and appreciate your patience in this regard."

It's now Sunday for me. I'm curious to know if anyone has already contacted them about this problem?

I have the same problem. I leave my Sony Viao (I know... I found out how horrible it was after I bought it...) running 24/7. The only time I turn it "off" is when I go to reboot it to fix this problem.


Only question I have:
Is the problem only in laptops? or does it also occur in desktops?

I'm sure the problem lies in anti virus program Avast (4.8.1169) with Vista Home Premium in my case. Whenever browsers freeze, I terminate Web Shield only and restart browsers for them to work properly again. It sure beats having to reboot computer each time.

Very similar problems here. My husband and I have matching laptops, Dell Inspiron E1705. The only the we have upgraded has been the ram, they came with Vista installed, we've had them for about 14 months now. We both get the updates as they come out. About 3 weeks ago I started having this problem. My first thought was the net was down, but the phone still worked (cable internet and phone). We have 2 wireless routers in the house, switched to a different router, it still blocked my internet (but I could still ping). I reset the routers, I reset the cable modem, I connected to an unrelated unsecured network. In the image it showed me as having internet connection. Yet IE, google notifier, and any software updates could not connect, but I could ping. I turned off as much as I could without killing the system. Still nothing. Then it just came back on, on it's own.
It happens 2-3 times a day, for around 20 minutes at a time (last night it was 27 minutes). During this same time my pda also wouldn't connect, ever. We bought a new router, set it up. Still having the same problem with my laptop (though now the pda connects fine). My husbands matching laptop has no problems.
My computer is mainly used for the internet. I have McAfee and Spybot, neither of them have found anything. The only other online services I run are gmail notifier, google chat, and wootalyzer. Then of course some software has it's online updates. None of these work when I have this problem
I have done the windows thing of having it look for a problem. It tells me it can't fix it, or it finds no problems. I have disabled and reenabled the wireless network. I have disabled the firewall in McAfee (windows firewall is already disabled because of McAfee).
The Win XP desktop that is also wireless has no problems, neither does my husbands personal laptop (Vista) nor his company laptop(I think it runs xp) .
The ONLY change that has been made (now that I think about it) is that I Synced the PDA to the laptop. Setting up the Sync software for the first time. I let windows find it and install it, didn't use a disk or download anything seperately. But the PDA is never plugged in to the laptop, and even shutting the Sync off it still happens. It only Syncs via usb, not bluetooth or anything else). And the PDA connects straight to the router, not through the laptop.
It always just fixes itself. Putting it into hibernation and even a restart has not helped me to restore the connections so I can be online. But when it's ready it works again.
I have
Vista Home Premium 32-bit
Dell Inspiron E1705 laptop
linksys router (WEP secured)
McAfee
Spybot
IE7
wootalyzer
gmail notifier
google chat
windows mail
(these are the only programs that go online and are generally on. Though turning them off doesn't stop the problem from happening). I have turned off ICS as a suggested attempt to stop this problem. It hasn't done it yet, but it's only been an hour.

Remo have tried changing 'spybot' to Adaware?
Ad-Aware 2007 Free - Lavasoft
I'm sure everyone who has posted with problems is running this software (spybot)

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I honestly don't think that is the problem, as I've ran spybot for 14 months, and the problem started 3 weeks ago.

But since I turned off the ICS yesterday it hasn't happened since. So it's been almost 24 hours. When before it was doing it 2-3 times a day. Maybe that is all it was. If it happens again I'll come back here. I'm hoping it's 'fixed' though.

I replaced ZoneAlarm with ComodoPRO FW a few days ago. I have this problem no more.

if i use the internet off my cell phone i dont have this problem... only when im connected through wireless.... (i havent tried directly connecting it to the router though)


what is that ICS or whatever thing u are talking about that u did?