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So, occasionally when I go online (XP Pro with highspeed connection thru router, I’m running AVG Internet Security Suite) my computer will show “Enable Failed” when I click to enable my internet connection.

I know it’s not my connection or router because both of my other sytems aren’t effected and can surf the net while the main computer cannot connect (they’ve not done this either like my main computer has).

All I’ve ever done is reboot my main computer and then it goes online just fine until the next episode usually about every couple of weeks.

Somebody told me once that sometimes things just change in Windows for no apparent reason and re-booting is the only way to fix things sometimes.

Is this it? Or, is there something else I should looking at?

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That sounds like it might be a problem with the firewall software not starting properly sometimes.

The easiest way to fix the computer when the firewall malfunctions is as you said - to reboot.

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Yeah, but would the firewall be running normally one moment and not the next?

I have the latest AVG paid version

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Nobody’s ever heard of any tweaking for this?

My other PCs also run AVG and the firewall doesn’t
do that to those machines, so isn’t it possible that
it’s something else?

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Have you thought about uninstall, then reinstall? Not familiar with AVG, but Norton’s was acting up, so I uninstalled it - then reinstalled it, and the problem was gone.

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sounds like an issue with the firewall or RAM.

if your computer has a limited amount of RAM, - or, if there is some issues with the installation of your AVG, it can cause a memory leak or buffer overrun (overflow) which again can cause the AVG and its firewall to act erratic and/or strange in one way or another.

an uninstall with a deletion of all temp files and a reboot, before a new clean install would probably fix this. (a reboot will fix this overrun temporary, but not the cause of it, so it will probably happend again)

if these problems is caused by too little RAM on your system, it simply needs more RAM.