HELP! NETWORK program freezes

I've been training a new user who's learning from scratch. Today we hit the
internet. I can't deal with dial-up but they're going south for 8 months
and it doesn't pay to bring in dsl or cable.

Anyway, we took it down to Starbucks so we could try the wireless and get
her used to using firefox. It worked great with the wireless except that
AOL kept starting and starting and tyring to get to the internet. It must
have come up 5 times before it stopped.

The wireless worked, so we went back to the apartment. I plugged it in and
tried to go the NETWORK tab on the start menu. It came up but no data
filled in, and it locked the cursor up so nothing would work. Had to power
it down hard.I told her I'd be back tomorrow to see what I can do. I did a
system restore last Friday and maybe a few ran automatically.

I'm not sure what to do at this point. Everything worked before I turned
AOLoff as the default internet connection. It fails in both Safe and
Normal modes.

Ha anybody seen this? Any ideas? Things like this never happened with 2000
and XP.

Thanks!

For the aol problem, you need to open Internet Options, connections and check
"Never dial a connection." She still will be able to use the dialup manually
if you leave the connection set up in Dialup Settings. Just don't let it
automatically connect.

"Rev. Vegetable Lasagne" wrote:

> I've been training a new user who's learning from scratch. Today we hit the
> internet. I can't deal with dial-up but they're going south for 8 months
> and it doesn't pay to bring in dsl or cable.
>
> Anyway, we took it down to Starbucks so we could try the wireless and get
> her used to using firefox. It worked great with the wireless except that
> AOL kept starting and starting and tyring to get to the internet. It must
> have come up 5 times before it stopped.
>
> The wireless worked, so we went back to the apartment. I plugged it in and
> tried to go the NETWORK tab on the start menu. It came up but no data
> filled in, and it locked the cursor up so nothing would work. Had to power
> it down hard.I told her I'd be back tomorrow to see what I can do. I did a
> system restore last Friday and maybe a few ran automatically.
>
> I'm not sure what to do at this point. Everything worked before I turned
> AOLoff as the default internet connection. It fails in both Safe and
> Normal modes.
>
> Ha anybody seen this? Any ideas? Things like this never happened with 2000
> and XP.
>
> Thanks!
>

=?Utf-8?B?TWFyeQ==?= <> wrote in
news:865BF96E-B67B-4DA3-A3AB-:

> For the aol problem, you need to open Internet Options, connections
> and check "Never dial a connection." She still will be able to use the
> dialup manually if you leave the connection set up in Dialup Settings.
> Just don't let it automatically connect.
>
> "Rev. Vegetable Lasagne" wrote:
>
>> I've been training a new user who's learning from scratch. Today we
>> hit the internet. I can't deal with dial-up but they're going south
>> for 8 months and it doesn't pay to bring in dsl or cable.
>>
>> Anyway, we took it down to Starbucks so we could try the wireless and
>> get her used to using firefox. It worked great with the wireless
>> except that AOL kept starting and starting and tyring to get to the
>> internet. It must have come up 5 times before it stopped.
>>
>> The wireless worked, so we went back to the apartment. I plugged it
>> in and tried to go the NETWORK tab on the start menu. It came up but
>> no data filled in, and it locked the cursor up so nothing would work.
>> Had to power it down hard.I told her I'd be back tomorrow to see what
>> I can do. I did a system restore last Friday and maybe a few ran
>> automatically.
>>
>> I'm not sure what to do at this point. Everything worked before I
>> turned AOLoff as the default internet connection. It fails in both
>> Safe and Normal modes.
>>
>> Ha anybody seen this? Any ideas? Things like this never happened with
>> 2000 and XP.
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>

I'll give that a shot. I feel like an idiot. I've done stuff like this for
people a hundred times and never had a lockup like this. I hope that method
gets in through a separate piece of code than the network button. Hope I
don't have to come back again.

Thanks, ?Utf-8?B?TWFyeQ==?=

I don't believe it.. That was my mother's name. Do you come here often?

I thought I replied already, but I didn't see it. I went back fresh the
next morning and thought I would just try AOL to see if it would connect as
it was a desktop icon. It went right through.

What I DID find before testing was that the student in reconnecting
everything had plugged the phone line into the ethernet jack. Not sure if
that might have caused the problem, but it couldn't have helped matters
any.

All is well... Thanks!



=?Utf-8?B?TWFyeQ==?= <> wrote in
news:865BF96E-B67B-4DA3-A3AB-:

> For the aol problem, you need to open Internet Options, connections
> and check "Never dial a connection." She still will be able to use the
> dialup manually if you leave the connection set up in Dialup Settings.
> Just don't let it automatically connect.
>
> "Rev. Vegetable Lasagne" wrote:
>
>> I've been training a new user who's learning from scratch. Today we
>> hit the internet. I can't deal with dial-up but they're going south
>> for 8 months and it doesn't pay to bring in dsl or cable.
>>
>> Anyway, we took it down to Starbucks so we could try the wireless and
>> get her used to using firefox. It worked great with the wireless
>> except that AOL kept starting and starting and tyring to get to the
>> internet. It must have come up 5 times before it stopped.
>>
>> The wireless worked, so we went back to the apartment. I plugged it
>> in and tried to go the NETWORK tab on the start menu. It came up but
>> no data filled in, and it locked the cursor up so nothing would work.
>> Had to power it down hard.I told her I'd be back tomorrow to see what
>> I can do. I did a system restore last Friday and maybe a few ran
>> automatically.
>>
>> I'm not sure what to do at this point. Everything worked before I
>> turned AOLoff as the default internet connection. It fails in both
>> Safe and Normal modes.
>>
>> Ha anybody seen this? Any ideas? Things like this never happened with
>> 2000 and XP.
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>