IE not dialing automatically

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Chris

I hope this is the right place for this, so here goes.

I use dial-up, antiquated as it is, on my laptop. Until
yesterday, whenever I started IE (Win XP, ver. 6), I was
prompted to connect to the internet as normal. Now,
however, this does not happen. Further, if I establish a
connection before or after starting IE, I am not prompted
to disconnect when closing IE. I have installed nothing
and have not changed any settings, it just stopped
working as it normally has.

I have checked the appropriate radio buttons to reflect
the default "dial when network connection is not
present". I am not using a NIC/PCMCIA network card or
combo card, by the way. I have even gone as far as
removing all my connections and recreating them through
IE. Still no dice.

How this manifests itself is that I receive a dialog box
when launching IE asking me to either "work offline"
or "try again". selecting "try again" dumps me to the
default "page not available" error page.

I have had this happen before, fixing it easily, but have
exhausted everything I can remember to do. Any
suggestions?
Cheers,
Chris
 
Chris

I had exactly the same problem. It was caused by the google toolbar add in on IE6 - not sure why though, I was scratching my head for a day or so on this. Anyway, uninstalled it in Control Panel - add/remove progs, restarted computer and everything OK now

Hope this works for you.
cheers
Graha
 
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