Basically, certain web pages are not working for me, and neither are certain flash based videos, especially youtube.com. At first it was their videos that wouldn't load for me. It was just a black screen, but now I cannot access the site at all. I type in the URL, and nothing else happens.
I have tried four different browsers, Firefox, Internet Explorer, Opera and Google Chrome, but the problem is the same with all. I even downloaded older versions of all of them.
I have updated flash, uninstalled and reinstalled it. Downloaded older versions.
Running several different scans for virus', spyware and malware.
I have stopped several processes from using my RAM.
I was told that my Internet speed is more than enough to play videos.
I have disabled firewall, pop-up blocker and anti-virus.
Defragmented.
Installed different softwares that were supposed to speed things up.
Turned off the web accelerator.
Did a full system recovery.
Re-programed my modem.
Spent hours researching this problem.
I asked this question on almost every computer help site, but every tells me to do the same things that I listed above that I have tried.
I am desperate, and becoming more and more frustrated with each passing day.
It's been like this for two weeks, but has gone way down hill in the past four days.
I'm using XP if that's of importance.
Any tips or suggestions that you can give me, even if they're a long shot, I would greatly appreciate it.
Money's tight, so hiring a repair man or buying a new computer isn't an option, so I'm very worried that this problem cannot be fixed.
Actually, there are other unrelated problems that I will probably post in another section on this site at another time.
Thank you for taking the time to read this, and to hopefully help me out.
