Well yesterday I booted up my computer, decided to surf the web, so.. I used mozilla like normal. I came across a site that wasnt working in mozilla so i fired up IE, and to my suprise, IE gave me a "Invalid Syntax Error" message to almost any website I went to. I have not installed anything new in the past days, and this problem just started yesterday. I do not have any virus's, im pretty secure on that stuff, nor do I have any spyware. The weird thing is IE can display some sites, but then not others. And the worst thing is that the windows update site does not work. It gives me the same error. So the first thing I tried was clearing all my temp files and whatnot, same problem. Then I checked to see if IE decided I was running through a proxy server, no, my connection settings were correct. Next I reverted all IE settings back to default, nope same error. Now at this point I knew that something was really wrong, so I fired up SB S&D to check for spyware and whatnot, but no, nothing. Plus I know for a fact that I have none on my computer right now after spending hours digging through the registry.. So next I try iexplore.exe /rereg that to fix any broken dll's. Nope, problem still there. Next I try sfc /scannow nope, still nothing. Nextup is to rebuild my tcp/ip stack just because. netsh int ip reset resetlog.txt Nope still borked. The next step I did was spend hours digging through the registry looking for anything strange, and reseting some settings by hand, but no, its still broken. Ok so now im like WTF, the final thing I try is re-installing the microsoft code thats for style sheets and whatnot, since it seems to be sites that have CSS arent working. But no, that doesnt work. So, my only option left now is to re-install IE using rundll32.exe setupapi,InstallHinfSection DefaultInstall 132 c:\windows\inf\ie.inf that command. So I try that, but of course it tells me that I need the SP2 install disc to complete the operation.. Which of course I dont have, so here I sit typing. So first off, any ideas on what the problem is? And second off, how would I be able to make my own SP2 install disc just like the microsoft one. I do not have 4-6 weeks to wait for the free microsoft SP2 install disc. Thanks
