re: some half-baked advice
Saturday, December 14, 2002 at 12:05 am
Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by josh
(4 messages posted)
thanks for the tips, i dont have a firewall and it is a brand new load of win 98
se. it would almost be easier to relinstall windows rather that hacking and tampering
with the registries .
On Thursday, December 12, 2002 at 11:12 pm, zygoteXY wrote:
>
>If Personal Firewall software is installed, completely remove it using add/remove
>as well as manual removal, before iinstalling a new network adapter. I had to do
>this for to iinstall my wireless network PC card. My failure to remove it initially
>before attempting to install the new adapter resulted in my having to restore the
>registry from backup just to be able to use my existing dial up connection again.
>I had two half-baked adapters at that point. I could ping and see green lights,
but
>not connect with IE, Netscape or AIM programs, like you, till i restored the registry,
>Removed (not just disable!) the P. Firewall entries in the registry and so forth
>(the entire aplication) and then installed the adapter first and then the firewall
>second. Windows sucks.
>
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- some half-baked advice (zygoteXY :o': Thursday, December 12, 2002 at 11:12 pm)
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