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Originally Posted by iantresman
Microsoft support has an update available which addresses this issue and is available by calling Microsoft support. Reference the fix for KB 884020 [ Search here]. |
So I called, and was eventually sent a link to a "hotfix":
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Hotfix file: ms-hotfix-196897_ENU_i386_zip.exe
Contains: WindowsXP-KB884020-x86-enu.exe (Run this file to install)
Also has: WindowsXP-KB884020-x86-Symbols-enu.exe (for debugging purposes).
Installation set-up a restore point, and required restarting my PC to finish.
And I'm pleased to say that this fixes the problem. I now have restored access to loopback localhost addresses, 127.0.0.1, 127.0.0.5, etc.
Regards,
Ian Tresman