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From: No One (noone_at_nowhere.net)
Date: 08/04/04 

Date: Wed, 4 Aug 2004 07:19:51 -0400

I have a totally fresh install of XP Home with OE6, all service packs,
patches and updates applied, yet I still have a problem persisting since
before the rebuild.

When I first come up and run OE I get a "no internet connection available"
error box, with a "Work Offline" or a "Try Again" button. If you hit the
TRY AGAIN button it tries read from my first email account and just hangs.
You have to stop it, then click the Send/Recv button up top to get it to
actually get your mail.

IF, however, you run Internet Explorer first and let it load a page, THEN
run OE, OE has no problem finding the internet connection and proceeds
normally, without the hang and repeat Send/Recv action.

So for some reason OE is unable to find an internet connection unless IE has
already loaded a page. This also shows up from time to time when you've
been perusing pages with IE and then switch over to OE to send a message.
That same error box pops up and you have to go through the stop, Send/Recv
to get it to function.

The connection is a RoadRunner cable modem through a LinkSys router, and the
Windows 98 machines also connected the same way have no such problem.
Trying to access the email accounts with Mailwasher, for example, has no
accessing problems, so this is so this is OE and XP Home specific. Any
ideas ?

THANKS,
Bill Stewart
Cape Coral, FL

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