Sony Vaio notebook, hard disk crash. Replaced hard disk, reloaded XP Pro
from recovery CD's, no problem. Loaded SP2, no problem. Downloaded and
installed latest updates (95 of them). After reboot, found the unit could
not web browse. TCP/IP seems fine, can ping whatever OK. Disabled firewall
and virus protection, no change. Ran IE 7's "Diagnose Connection Problems..",
returned with "HTTP blocked...possible firewall...etc". Looked at the
Application Log, found a number of errors from "System.ServiceModel.Ins",
among them the last error was "HTTP Namespace reservations not installed."
I suspect this is either a direct of indirect cause of the problem. The
first error from Service.ServiceModel.Ins was complaining the "IIS is not
installed or is disabled", which is odd since this is simply a notebook
workstation XP Pro load. Search of all microsoft.com provided no hits .
There are a number of previous errors, but the first was "A provider,
HiPerfCooker_v1, has been registered in the WMI namespace, Root\WMI, to use
the LocalSystem account. This account is privileged and the provider may
cause a security violation if it does not correctly impersonate user
requests." I have reached the end of my technical expertise to resolve this.