re: One more time ... How do I stop....? Wednesday, November 12, 2003 at 8:56 pm Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by Becky (83 messages posted) Probably won't help, but try Tools > Internet Options > Programs tab > uncheck "Internet Explorer should check to see....... Browse as usual, and it should eventualy ask you if you want to make Internet Explorer your default browser. Check yes. It may just help your problem. On Sunday, November 9, 2003 at 4:03 pm, Annoyed-With-Windows wrote: >This is a repeat of a post I made about a week ago. I got several replies but alas, >they didn't help. I'm giving it another go, hoping someone else may have the answer. >Got XP, home, with dial-up connection. No matter how I start to surf the web (using >a desktop shortcut to a website, or opening Internet Explorer to my home page, or >opening it to a blank page (using about:blank) and then clicking on a site from my >favorites list), I get a box on-screen telling me the webpage is not available offline >(I know that!) and to view it I should click on connect. I get this box even if I >first connect to the net before opening my browser and going to a website. This happens >only when I first try to go to a website in a session -- once I've gone to a site >(after being forced to click on that connect button), the message doesn't show up >again during the rest of the session. But next day when I go to surf, I get the same >on-screen message. I want to get rid of this message and having to click on the connect >button. (I also have much the same thing happen when I first open Outlook Express >-- even if I am already connected to the internet, I get a similar message.) Any >help out there? Thanky, thanky. Written in response to: One more time ... How do I stop....? (Annoyed-With-Windows: Sunday, November 9, 2003 at 4:03 pm) Responses to this message: re: One more time ... How do I stop....? (Annoyed-With-Windows: Thursday, November 13, 2003 at 9:19 am) All messages in this thread [show all] One more time ... How do I stop....? (Annoyed-With-Windows: Sun, Nov 9, 2003, 4:03 pm) re: One more time ... How do I stop....? (Wildeyes: Sun, Nov 9, 2003, 4:11 pm) re: One more time ... How do I stop....? (Annoyed-With-Windows: Sun, Nov 9, 2003, 4:28 pm) re: One more time ... How do I stop....? (Helen: Sun, Nov 9, 2003, 4:39 pm) re: One more time ... How do I stop....? (jcw: Sun, Nov 9, 2003, 4:49 pm) re: One more time ... How do I stop....? (Helen: Sun, Nov 9, 2003, 4:57 pm) re: One more time ... How do I stop....? (jcw: Sun, Nov 9, 2003, 5:44 pm) re: One more time ... How do I stop....? (Helen: Sun, Nov 9, 2003, 6:20 pm) re: One more time ... How do I stop....? (Annoyed-With-Windows: Sun, Nov 9, 2003, 6:32 pm) re: One more time ... How do I stop....? (Helen: Sun, Nov 9, 2003, 7:20 pm) re: One more time ... How do I stop....? (Annoyed-With-Windows: Mon, Nov 17, 2003, 4:39 pm) re: One more time ... How do I stop....? (Becky: Wed, Nov 12, 2003, 8:56 pm) re: One more time ... How do I stop....? (Annoyed-With-Windows: Thu, Nov 13, 2003, 9:19 am) An Answer, I think, but no good fix (Annoyed-With-Windows: Mon, Nov 17, 2003, 4:28 pm) re: An Answer, I think, but no good fix (Helen: Mon, Nov 17, 2003, 4:58 pm) re: An Answer, I think, but no good fix (Annoyed-With-Windows: Mon, Nov 17, 2003, 5:14 pm) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows XP Discussion Forum