Outlook Express won't connect on startup

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Ed Williamson - 30 Aug 2004 21:41 GMT

Outlook Express refuses to dial up automatically when I
start it up. It gives me this error message:

'An error occurred while establishing the Dial-Up Network
connection 'BTOW'.'

When I open Internet Explorer it dials up fine, and of
course I can just connect before I open Outlook Express,
and then I get my emails with no problems, but it's
annoying and I'd really like to figure it out!

If anyone's got any ideas I'd be really grateful.

Thanks
Ed Williamson

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Jim Pickering - 30 Aug 2004 23:30 GMT

Open Outlook Express, click on Tools/Options and Connection tab and review
your settings there. They should agree with the settings in Internet
Explorer.

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> Outlook Express refuses to dial up automatically when I
> start it up. It gives me this error message:
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> Thanks
> Ed Williamson

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Ed Williamson - 31 Aug 2004 19:05 GMT

Thanks - have just tried that but they already do agree.
Under the Connections tab in Outlook Express, it
says 'Outlook Express shares your Internet Connection
settings with Internet Explorer'. I checked through as
well just to be sure and each setting is identical to
that in Internet Explorer.

Any other ideas?

Thanks
Ed Williamson

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Bruce Hagen - 31 Aug 2004 19:17 GMT

Tools>Accounts>Mail>Properties>Connection. See if the box is checked
and the settings are also correct there.

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> Thanks - have just tried that but they already do agree.
> Under the Connections tab in Outlook Express, it
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anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com - 31 Aug 2004 21:07 GMT

The box is checked and settings are the same there!

Thanks anyway. Any other thoughts?

Ed Williamson

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>Tools>Accounts>Mail>Properties>Connection. See if the box is checked
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