Launching dail-up often freezes system (sp2)

[Jon]

I've noticed this since I upgraded to SP2. I launch a dial-up session
(with XP's internet connection dialer) and it dials but then hangs...I
can't even seem to kill the process with Task Manager (I ask it to kill
a process but it ignores the request.) and it won't reboot using
ctrl/alt/del...So I have to actually power down and restart everything.

It seems to happen if I've started dialing and then am launching another
app in the meantime (IE/outlook/whatever). It seem that if I wait for the
dial-up process to finish than it doesn't freeze. (To me it's like the
proogram is being inturrupted because it wants more CPU cycles or
something)

So first, is anyone else experiencing this and secondly, is there a way
to kill the dial-up process if it hangs midstream so I don't have to
power down my entire PC. This has happened a lot since I installed SP2. I
don't remember it even happening prior.

Quite annoying.

Thanks,

Jon

 

[Guest]

This is also happening to me. I have a new system running xp. Usually if I
wait it will eventually work, but your right it is annoying. Did you ever
find out how to fix the problem? Thanks

 

[Guest]

This is also happening to me. I have a new system running xp. Usually if I
wait it will eventually work, but your right it is annoying. Did you ever
find out how to fix the problem? Thanks

 

[Guest]

Sorry about the duplicate message ! I was wondering if anybody has found a
solution to the dial-up freeze problem. I have tried all kinds of hardware
and software solutions with no help. The only solution that actually works is
to un-install SP2 and the problem goes away. If I reinstall SP2 it's back. No
combination of fire-wall or security settings, etc. makes any difference.
Lots of time wasted trying different settings. Any ideas would be helpful.

Thanks, Jtb11