On 27 Aug 2005 at 12:17, [log in to unmask] wrote: > I just got 256k DSL day before yesterday. I have Win98SE. > I can't see much, if any, difference in speed for surfing > with it over dialup. Pictures upload and download faster, > but pages don't seem to open any faster. I still wait as > they 'paint' the screen. Speed of painting the screen is governed mostly by your CPU and video card, not your network connection. > Do you just unplug the DSL from the port to do Scan Disk and > Defrag? (I don't want to disable Zone Alarm and Avast while > I'm connected and Scan Disk won't run with them running in > the background.) That should be fine. > I don't have an ethernet port, so it's connected via USB > port in the front of the box. Could this cause problems > with Win98SE.....make it more unstable? (It's already very > unstable anyway.) Not instability per se, but the actual speed you see could be limited if this is a USB 1.x port versus 2.0. > I'm also getting a window every time I boot that asks for my > user name and password for networking. Can I disable that? There's a setting in the Network control panel applet for what kind of network login to use. I think this indicates that it's set to "Client for Mircosoft Networks"; if you change it to "Windows Family Login" the box *should* go away. If it doesn't, you can use TweakUI to login for you. If you still see the box appear for a few seconds, that would confirm that your CPU and video card are painting the screen very slowly. [I have recently worked with two 98SE machines using this: on the 1.3GHz P3 with an AGP 2x video card, the box isn't visible to the naked eye; on the 200 MHz Pentium with an old PCI video card, it's visible on the screen for 10 seconds or so.] David Gillett The NOSPIN Group Promotions is now offering our special coffee mugs and mouse pads with the PCBUILD logo... at a great price!!! http://freepctech.com/goodies/promotions.shtml