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Ian Jennings - 23 Sep 2005 08:49 GMT

Hi all

Three months ago we had a young female relative come and live with us for
an extended period. Rather than let her get her hands on my machine, and as
her only needs are to check her email, I retrieved an old laptop from the
cupboard and reinstalled W98 on it. I also retrieved an old hub, connected
the two machines to it and plugged it into our router. After I'd installed
W98, *somehow*, somewhere, I put in the IP numbers from my machine and,
much to my great suprise, IE connected and, until last week, has worked
fine ever since. Last week she screwed something (there's no firewall on
that machine so it could have been anything) and I had reformat and
reinstall. It turned out that my installation CD has been damaged, and it's
taken me several days to get everything reinstalled. But, it's all seems to
be up and running again - apart from how I set up the Internet connection.

I configured Network TCP/IP as I *thought* I had done it before, with IP
number and Subnet. But I obviously haven't, as when I now start IE it tells
me that it needs to configure a modem. It didn't do *that* before, I'm
certain. But I don't remember what it was that I did do before, and I'm
hoping that someone in here will be able to tell me. :)

MTIA

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Jeff Richards - 23 Sep 2005 11:19 GMT

The wizard isn't very reliable. See if there is something useful here:
http://www.annoyances.org/exec/show/ics_98#2a

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Jeff Richards
MS MVP (Windows - Shell/User)

> Hi all
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> MTIA

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Ian Jennings - 23 Sep 2005 13:24 GMT

"Jeff Richards" <JRichards@msn.com.au> wrote in news:eefcChCwFHA.552
@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl:

> The wizard isn't very reliable. See if there is something useful here:
> http://www.annoyances.org/exec/show/ics_98#2a

Hi Jeff

I'm wondering why I even got a wizard. I didn't before, so I guess the new
installation is different to the old one, but I can't think of what I might
have done differently.

Thanks for the link. I had a quick glance and it seems to be for ICS, I'll
dive in and read properly when I've launched this. I'm fairly certain that
ICS wasn't invoked on the previous setup. The machines aren't connected to
each other, as in an ICS-type connection. They are connected to the hub and
the hub is connected to the router. Not very secure, I know. If I end up
with a load of crap on the laptop, it's not a problem. It's going in the
bin when our young friend leaves. But I'm doing a fair amount of video
editing at the moment and I need to disconnect my main machine from any
network connections otherwise the editing software goes belly-up. Hence,
the direct connection for the laptop, with the hub just acting as a T-
piece. As things are set, I can just unplug the main machine from the hub
and the laptop should, and did, still work. If I go ICS (I assume) pulling
the plugs on this machine is going to dis the laptop as well.

But again, many thanks for the link. Time for a read.

Cheers

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Jeff Richards - 24 Sep 2005 01:01 GMT

If you are accessing the 'net through the hub and router than AFAIK the
setup to use for the W98 machine should be a straight copy of the setup used
on any of the other machines - certainly that's the way that I would attack
the problem. In this case the version of Windows makes very little
difference.

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> "Jeff Richards" <JRichards@msn.com.au> wrote in news:eefcChCwFHA.552
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> Cheers

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Ian Jennings - 24 Sep 2005 05:10 GMT

> If you are accessing the 'net through the hub and router than AFAIK
> the setup to use for the W98 machine should be a straight copy of the
> setup used on any of the other machines - certainly that's the way
> that I would attack the problem. In this case the version of Windows
> makes very little difference.

Yes, and that's what I've done (and thought I'd done previously) but I
can't get IE to *not* come up with the blasted wizard to install a modem.
If I let it continue then it wants to try and make a free phone call to try
and 'customize my Internet experience'. It can't make the call as it's not
connected via a modem so cannot complete. Catch 22 by the look of it. But I
did it before with no problem, and no wizard.

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glee - 26 Sep 2005 06:21 GMT

see if this helps you around it:
Annoyances.org - Disable the Internet Connection Wizard:
http://www.annoyances.org/exec/show/article04-005

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> > If you are accessing the 'net through the hub and router than AFAIK
> > the setup to use for the W98 machine should be a straight copy of the
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> connected via a modem so cannot complete. Catch 22 by the look of it. But I
> did it before with no problem, and no wizard.

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Ian Jennings - 26 Sep 2005 17:29 GMT

"glee" <glee29@spamindspring.com> wrote in news:umFNpnlwFHA.908
@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl:

> see if this helps you around it:
> Annoyances.org - Disable the Internet Connection Wizard:
> http://www.annoyances.org/exec/show/article04-005

Thanks Glen. The article isn't quite accurate (the wizard doesn't give a
'don't show again' option if you cancel) but deleting the folder worked
nicely. :)

Many thanks

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