re: LAN Settings
Monday, December 10, 2001 at 7:00 pm
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by shawn clarke
(17 messages posted)
Give this a go:
The @Home software includes a few little tricks to keep your proxy server set to
the one @Home wants you to use. Every time you restart your machine, the proxy settings
will be reset to http://proxy:8080.
Uninstalling the @Home software package doesn't appear to stop this.
There are two DLL files which are causing this to happen: ahiehelp.dll and
ahnsreg.dll.
Both can be found in c:\windows\system\ on a Windows 98/ME system. Windows
NT/2000 users can use "Search for Files or Folders" to locate these DLL files. The
will most likely be found in the c:\winnt\system32\ directory. These files
stand for "@home Internet Explorer Helper" and "@home Netscape Registry".
Apparently NT4 users can type REGSVR32 -u hiehelp.dllat the command prompt
to unregister the DLL properly.
Start up in safe mode, delete these two DLL files, and the problem should disappear.
Note that this solution worked for the Australian version of the @Home service called
Optus@Home. Software may be different from other countries' @Home services but seeing
as Optus@Home was based on Excite@Home there should be minimal difference.
On Sunday, December 9, 2001 at 4:50 pm, George Rush wrote:
>I was an @home customer; they went bankrupt (as probably everyone here knows), so
>now I'm an AT&T customer, and I connect by the same cable modem to them as I did
>to @Home.
- Written in response to:
- re: LAN Settings (George Rush: Sunday, December 9, 2001 at 4:50 pm)
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