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MSIE version 6 work offline problem.

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by magoo304

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All of a sudden IE says working off line.Almost everytime I open IE it is back to working offline. Why does it keep resetting itself? I am connected by cable through a router. Running Win XP home on a Gateway Pentium 2.4 Ghz. 512 ram. 60 Gig HD. Ad-Aware SE, Spybot, Microsoft AntiSpyware,and ZoneAlarm, are all running or used to protect the system.

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by diskaus

lets start with the simple answer first,
open IE and on the tool bar click "File" then in that list that comes up just check to see that "work Off Line" does not have a tick next to it . If it does click it and it should then be removed and IE should then automatically connect when IE is started,
the complicated fix is to do a repair , there are two ways of doing this, One is to go to the following link and down load the repair utility
http://windowsxp.mvps.org/IEFIX.htm

Two go to this Microsoft site and repair IE that way
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;318378

Hope this helps

by magoo304

diskaus I ran the IE fix. It will be a few days before I know if this works. The automatic default back to "work offline" doesn't happen every time IE is opened. ( I do know that there IS a connection when this does happens). If nothing happens by Thurs. I will post back and award you the points. If the problem still persists then I will also let you know. Thank you very much.
Mark

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