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Win98,IE.5.5 Can't get by ISP Signup

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by jbo

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I have a new notebook that when I click in IE5.5, it goes to a page called ISP Signup and offers me to sign up with AT&T or AOL. I'm on a network and do not want to sign up with anyone, but if I hit cancel, it quits out and does not continue with IE. My guess is that the IEAK was used to tailor this, but I can't figure out how to get around this. I've tried installing IE5.5SP1, but the link or script that is running still remains.

Any ideas? There must be a registry hack or something that I can do. Is their a HTM file that gets fired off or something like that?

Thank you

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by jbo

Yes, Never Dial a connection is checked and the LAN settings are all set.

by michael roark - ccna/da mcp 3csa

on your desktop, right click on IE, go to the connections tab, and select "never dial a connection", then hit apply and click the LAN settings button, Not knowing whether or not you have a proxy, I'm not able to tell you what exactly to type in , but chances are, if you select "Automatically Detect Settings" it will find your internet, if not, ask your LAN administrator what your proxy server is...
Good Luck.

by jbo

Hi Michael,
IE is already setup this way. Yes, I am trying to connect to our LAN w/o Proxy, so it has "never dial a connection" and LAN settings are correct (we have three other identical Sony notebooks that all worked in seconds). Thanks any way.

by mphoffar

I've seen this cured a couple different ways

One was to just go into the internet prooperties and run setup from the connection tab in there. This should prompt you through the Internet Connection wizard (different then what you were seeing) andwhen finished would clear all that stuff out.

The other way was to go thorugh the "out of box" signup. During this it'd ask you warranty stuff, and then push you to sign up with someone. However, looking close at the pages there was usually a button cleverly hudden that said skip this when doing the internet signup. After hitting finish, the signup page would not come up again. The one's I've seen that with have been HPs and Sony's, but I'm sure it could've been setup with any notebook
I might also suggest getting sometihng like tweakui to reossociate the icon back to the iexplore icon.

Good luck to you

Mark

by jbo

I was able to solve my problem by copying all files & folders below C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer from an identical machine and overwrote my folder(s) of the same names. This took care of the problem. Somewhere in the folders below there werereferences or scripts to fire off this sign-up page, but I could not locate them. Fortunately, the copy over feature worked. Thanks to all that responded.
John

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