Question about 'Share an Internet Connection'
Thursday, January 10, 2002 at 6:57 pm
Posted by Roger Lucas
(2 messages posted)
I have a question about Internet Explorer losing the defaults on shutdown.
I have two computers with Windows ME networked with a crossover cable through ethernet
ports. I set them up through the networking wizard in ME. Everything has worked
without fail for about a year, then suddenly the host machine loses the internet
connection defaults on shutdown. When this happens, I also lose the ability to initiate
an internet connection from the client. Here's what happens: Upon restarting the
Host machine and launching Internet Explorer, it cannot find the dial up connection
on the first try, but will dial in on the second and all subsequent tries thereafter,
and once connected, the client will also connect, but will not initiate an internet
connection without the Host being already online. If I uninstall Internet Explorer
6 & restart the host, everything goes back to working on both the host and the client
until I shut down the Host, and it loses the defaults and I am back to square one
again. I can repeat the install of IE 6, and all works well again...of course until
I shut down, then we do it all over again. (incidentally, I have been running IE
6 ever since it became available without any problems)
Anyone out there know the answer to this? I have tried going into startup and de-selecting
everything except the essentials, but nothing has worked so far. Strangely enough,
this problem just cropped up for no apparent reason.
Thank you,
Roger
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