Stephen47

also where do I go from there? if I delete them will I still be able to connect?

Unless you consideer my PCMCIA ethernet card a network card,, I don't have one

I don't have a Network card. My computer is a laptop. There are 12 items listed in Network in Control Panel: Client for Microsoft Network Dial-up Adapter Dial-up Adapter#2(VPN Support) Microsoft Virtual Private Networking Adapter Network of Xircom 10/100 Network+56K Modem PC Card NDISWAN-> Microsoft Virtual Private Networking Adapter NDISWAN-> PPP over Ethernet Miniport PPP over Ethernet Miniport -> PPP over Ethernet Protocol PPP over Ethernet Protocol ->Network of Xircom 10/100 Network + 56K Modem PC Card TCP/IP -> Dial-up Adapter TCP/IP -> Dial-up Adapter #2 (VPN Support) TCP/IP -> Network of Xircom 10/100 Network + 56K Modem PC Card Are you saying I should remove them all except the three you listed in your post?

I am runniing Windows98SE on a PII 266 with 224mb RAM

How can I remove the Network Neighborhood and My Documents icons from my desktop?

So far every time I have started my computer I have had to reboot before I could succesfully connect. Now what?

I installed raspppoe and after the reboot, I connected but no websites would open. After another reboot I could open web pages I will monitor this for a few different start ups. If it turns out this wasn't the problem do you have any other ideas?

never mind, I got it. I will keep you posted. Thanks for the info

the link opens a new page but it is blank is the address correct?

can I just uninnstall it from the add/remove programs box? I didn't see NukePoet in the WinPoet directory.

I have'nt heard of RASPPOE. Can you give me more info on it and how would I switch? Thanks for the quick reply

I have had this problem for quite some time now.Sometimes I boot my computer and I am able to connect to the internet without any problems. Other times I connect, in other words, my DSL WinPoET dialer connects , but when I open my browser it will not find any web sites except the website for my local library. All other sites return the usual cannot find website message. It doesn't matter which browser I use IE, Netscape 7.1, Avant Browser, My IE2, or Mozilla Foxfire, nothing connects. I have updated my AV definitions and run a full system scan and it comes up clean. I have two spyware programs installed, Ad Aware and Spybot, I update and run these frequently,and they show nothing. I defrag at least once a day and always empty my temp files and delete cookies. Sometimes I have to re-boot several times before I can successfully view web sites. Sometimes I will run defrag and it will work and sometimes not. There doesn't seem to be any one thing I do that will always work.