About 1 week ago, out of the blue, my computer stopped being able to connect to servers in Halo PC, Outlook can't connect, and I can't connect to any servers using FTP. Since then, every once in a while Firefox and IE get can't connect to the Internet, though Opera seems fine. My download speed is ridiculously low now most of the time (20 KB/s) as compared to my normal speed (300 KB/s). I can upload and download fine with a torrent client (Azureus) and other P2P programs, but the speeds are low also. I've run full scans McAfee and EZ Antivirus, as well as Ad-Aware, Spybot, HijackThis, and there were a lot of viruses and other malware that I got rid of, but the problems haven't gone away. I tried to get Windows XP SP2, but Windows Update has problems getting it, and I'm now downloading it directly from the Microsoft site (at like 4 KB/s). I haven't made any changes to my system's configuration (that I can think of) that would cause any of these problems.
Another thing wrong with my system (probably unrelated since I've had it for a little while now) is that whenever I try accessing the Control Panel, explorer crashes, and according to the error report it's shlwapi.dll that's causing it. I looked it up online, and someone said that it might be corrupted, but I tried downloading the dll off a site and replacing the one I have now with it, but it didn't help. If anyone can help me with these problems, I would greatly appreciate it.
Another thing wrong with my system (probably unrelated since I've had it for a little while now) is that whenever I try accessing the Control Panel, explorer crashes, and according to the error report it's shlwapi.dll that's causing it. I looked it up online, and someone said that it might be corrupted, but I tried downloading the dll off a site and replacing the one I have now with it, but it didn't help. If anyone can help me with these problems, I would greatly appreciate it.
