Re: Phone

From: Jone Doe (fake_at_nowhere.org)
Date: 07/08/04


Date: Thu, 8 Jul 2004 15:13:00 -0500


"J." <jak2@sympatico.ca> wrote in message
news:ehcre0d4hmg99pn81arhnqt3985fr5j2q5@4ax.com...
>
> I was told that there is a feature in windows xp which would alert me
> if someone was trying to contact me by phone while I was connected to
> the Internet.
> We just have the one phone,and when I am on the Internet no one can
> call through as the line is in use...
>
> any folks out there useing this feature, I just upgraded from win me
> to Win XP yesterday...
> Thanks
> JJ

If you have call waiting from the telephone company, there are third party
programs that will take a short message when someone calls and play you the
message, giving you the opportunity to go off line and take the call. There
is nothing built into XP that will do that however.

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