> I recently installed ADSL service.  My browser is IE 5.0.  After the
> converstion from the dial up service I get a message box titled "Work
> Offline".  The message says "No connection to the Internet is currently
> available.  To view Internet content that has been saved on your computer,
> click Work Offline."  I am given two options:  Work Offline, and Try
Again.
> I know to click Try Again and I am up an running.  Where is the setting to
> eliminate this message box and have IE load up.
>
> Jimmy Fikes
>
Here are a couple of things that you can try. From IE go to Tools/Internet
Options/Connections, make sure that "Never dial a connection is selected.
Also, if you are not using the dial-up modem anymore,  you can remove the
setup from your Dialup Networking. These might help you. I had the same
thing happen to me when I had my DSL, and it was because of a dialup program
that I had installed from one of those Free ISP sites, and I started getting
this message after I dumped it. I was told that it was a glitch in IE, and
eventually it stopped on it's own. If the above options don't help, you may
want to try upgrading to IE 5.01 or 5.5.

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