re: Option still grey after doing all in MS KB article Sunday, April 1, 2007 at 8:41 am Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by Med (1 messages posted) All these fixes usually don't solve the problem - they're mostly crap and just don't work. Here is something so simple that I really am at a loss as to how Bill Gates and his bunch of monkeys at Micro$oft have not posted this solution; Go to: CONTROL PANEL--->ADMINISTRATIVE TOOLS--->SERVICES SET "Remote Access Connection Manager" to "MANUAL" or "AUTOMATIC" If the service is unable to be started then you will need to reboot. The greying out of the "Connect using a dial-up modem" and "Connect using a broadband connection that requires a username and password" is a 100% reproducible phenomenon, ie: turn off/stop the "Remote Access Connection Manager" service and your top two connection options will be greyed out. Turn it back on and you're all go! F**k M$ and their so-called "help" at article support.microsoft.com/kb/320558 Written in response to: re: Option still grey after doing all in MS KB article (Sriram: Thursday, June 17, 2004 at 5:43 am) There are presently no replies to this message. All messages in this thread [show all] Question about 'Replace Enternet 300 with Windows XP's built-in support for PPPoE' (koizumi: Sun, Nov 10, 2002, 9:40 am) re: Question about 'Replace Enternet 300 with Windows XP's built-in support for PPPoE' (Steve: Sun, Nov 10, 2002, 10:59 am) re: Question about 'Replace Enternet 300 with Windows XP's built-in support for PPPoE' (koizumi: Sun, Nov 10, 2002, 1:25 pm) re: Question about 'Replace Enternet 300 with Windows XP's built-in support for PPPoE' (Steve: Sun, Nov 10, 2002, 3:10 pm) re: Question about 'Replace Enternet 300 with Windows XP's built-in support for PPPoE' (LyFsuX: Fri, Nov 15, 2002, 8:38 pm) re: Question about 'Replace Enternet 300 with Windows XP's built-in support for PPPoE' (XdeeP: Fri, Apr 11, 2003, 8:50 am) re: Question about 'Replace Enternet 300 with Windows XP's built-in support for PPPoE' (koizumi: Sat, Nov 16, 2002, 8:17 am) re: Question about 'Replace Enternet 300 with Windows XP's built-in support for PPPoE' (Diedrich Schultz: Fri, Mar 21, 2003, 3:55 pm) re: Question about 'Replace Enternet 300 with Windows XP's built-in support for PPPoE' (Ygdrassil: Sat, Jan 4, 2003, 9:58 am) re: Question about 'Replace Enternet 300 with Windows XP's built-in support for PPPoE' (Andy: Sat, Mar 8, 2003, 6:43 am) i fixed it (yelling)!!! (Noah: Sun, Apr 4, 2004, 6:40 pm) re: i fixed it (yelling)!!! (Jason: Thu, Aug 19, 2004, 6:21 am) re: i fixed it (yelling)!!! (bjdobson: Fri, Oct 5, 2007, 10:25 am) re: Question about 'Replace Enternet 300 with Windows XP's built-in support for PPPoE' (Ditek: Tue, Feb 4, 2003, 5:42 pm) Option still grey after doing all in MS KB article (Michael Peters: Sat, Mar 22, 2003, 10:22 am) re: Option still grey after doing all in MS KB article (Al: Mon, Apr 28, 2003, 3:14 pm) re: Option still grey after doing all in MS KB article (Roger: Mon, Jun 9, 2003, 9:14 pm) re: Option still grey after doing all in MS KB article (David: Tue, Aug 26, 2003, 10:53 pm) re: Option still grey after doing all in MS KB article (Rambaut: Mon, Sep 29, 2003, 4:54 pm) re: Option still grey after doing all in MS KB article (bill: Tue, Nov 11, 2003, 4:34 pm) re: Option still grey after doing all in MS KB article (Michael B: Wed, Dec 17, 2003, 12:19 am) re: Option still grey after doing all in MS KB article (Scott : Fri, Dec 19, 2003, 3:32 pm) re: Option still grey after doing all in MS KB article (donkshop: Mon, Dec 22, 2003, 6:16 am) re: Option still grey after doing all in MS KB article (exdirtfarmer: Tue, Dec 23, 2003, 2:25 pm) PPPoE is greyed out (Kirk: Mon, Jan 26, 2004, 7:41 pm) re: PPPoE is greyed out (Terry: Tue, Feb 10, 2004, 3:13 pm) have u tried this (Sriram: Mon, May 24, 2004, 1:20 am) re: have u tried this (Ken Lee: Thu, Aug 26, 2004, 1:49 pm) re: Finally Fixed the greyed out PPPoE thing (evan: Wed, Mar 2, 2005, 10:16 pm) re: Finally Fixed the greyed out PPPoE thing (killabee: Sat, Jul 9, 2005, 3:10 pm) re: Finally Fixed the greyed out PPPoE thing (Steve Polaski: Tue, Nov 15, 2005, 9:15 am) re: Finally Fixed the greyed out PPPoE thing (Hopeful Hiker: Fri, Jul 4, 2008, 3:29 am) re: Option still grey after doing all in MS KB article (Vincent: Mon, Mar 29, 2004, 6:51 am) re: Option still grey after doing all in MS KB article (Bystander: Thu, Jun 17, 2004, 3:24 am) re: Option still grey after doing all in MS KB article (Sriram: Thu, Jun 17, 2004, 5:43 am) re: Option still grey after doing all in MS KB article (Med: Sun, Apr 1, 2007, 8:41 am) 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