I have a question about Setting up Dial-Up Networking:

I dislike the 'Butterfly Applet' which is used to connect to MSN on Windows XP and would like to be able to set up a dial-up networking connection to MSN instead so that I may use any email client with the service. Any tips on how to do this would be appreciated! Thanks! Mark

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If you go here it gives step by step instructions on how to set up a connection manually.Obviously the settings will be for your own ISP. http://www.ntlworld.com/help/windowsxp/dialup.htm

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To set up a dial-up networking connection to MSN, you have to preface your user name with "MSN/". Note, that's a forward slash and not the backslash you'd normally use to prefix a domain to a user account. Other than that, it's set up just like a normal dial-up connection. If you joined MSN and kept a hotmail address, this doesn't work. I'm trying to find a way around that now.


On Monday, January 14, 2002 at 12:46 pm, Mark Withers wrote:
>I have a question about Setting
>up Dial-Up Networking:

>I dislike the 'Butterfly Applet' which is used to connect to MSN on Windows XP and
>would like to be able to set up a dial-up networking connection to MSN instead so
>that I may use any email client with the service.
>
>Any tips on how to do this would be appreciated!

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