We have a few PC running XP sp3 have some network problem, if the pc has not been use for some times, it will locked, when user unlocked it, all the network loset, IE FF, outlook, thunderbird, all the windows base program lost the network, but I can ping and trace route from command prompt, to fix it, user just log off and log back in everything would be fine, I try to reset the network card, renew the ip, disable and reenable the network card, nothing worked if I dont log off. any idea what may cause this? your help will be very much appreciated.
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Jump to PostSo if the PC comes out of the 'locked' mode, and you can ping other hosts, then you know that everything up to layer 3 is working just fine.
Here's the question: When the machine is locked, do you mean screen saver, or do you mean standby/hibernate?
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