How do you connect to the Internet? Dial up or broadband?

If dialup, go to Control Panel, add remove programs, windows setup, communications and uncheck dial up networking. Do not reboot if prompted!

Then go to control panel - network and remove everything.
Reboot and let it rebuild it all. The minimum that should be there depends on the system, how you connect to the Internet and if you have a network.

Absolute minimums with broadband are the clent for Microsoft Networks, the network adapter and TCP/IP bound to the adapter.

If you use dial up you need to recheck the communications box and reestablish your connectoid to your IP

Hope that helps