re: IE5.5
Thursday, April 3, 2003 at 3:57 pm
Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Robben
(30 messages posted)
Thanks. I will make backups shortly of those things. Promise. ;)
I should know better. I had heard they dropped support for it, but the 'good' reason
I had heard about was that it doesn't support the .net framework and doesn't have
the added 'MS spyware' abilities that 6.0 has, similar to what I've been hearing
about with XP's software. I'm leery on the knowledge of the spyware, be it maybe
rumour only, but the .net framework, or lack of, in IE5.5 was one of the main reasons
for dumping it. I probably will upgrade shortly, as the salesrep is using it, and
it seems to be behaving on his 98se (90mhz pentium, if you can believe it) quite
well.
My ISP is Ma Bell here, and I'm just off the phone with the lineman. He checked the
lines, and had the office do a line test. He made a couple of alterations, mentioning
some part, or couple of parts, that shouldn't be on the line, and removed them. He
said they mainly only affect the speed, but who knows. He's just a linesman, so doesn't
get into the ADSL modem or computer end of things. The line as far as the modem is
checked out and supposedly good. He suspects if I still have problems, it could be
the modem itself. Tomorrow should tell. I'm online right now, but only at 50 minutes
so far. The reason for coming here and hitting you people up was in the hopes it
was some buggy thing in Windows that I could fix... It may still, and if nothing
else, I should end up with a cleaner Windows and a new 6.0 browser. :) I've needed
to do a little housekeeping for awhile. Thanks for all your help so far. I'll keep
you posted on what happens next.
Once I get this connection to stay active until I decide to disconnect, I'll invest
in a firewall. I've heard good things about ZoneAlarm, besides the price... I just
don't need another layer of software to troubleshoot the problem yet.
Robben
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- re: IE5.5 (Cam: Thursday, April 3, 2003 at 1:59 pm)
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