Im not sure but about 4 months ago I started having this problem where the bars on the lower left side of the screen would drop down to 1 and then back up a few and stay there but for the past month or so it's stayed at the first bar. Since its been there not one of my searches has shown up anything or enabled me to download anything. I tried the connection list on how to fix it which didnt change anything.

I have a Windows XP
The FIREWALL is currently off.

Any ideas on what I should do?

PS: I tried everything in the sticky with no change