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IE 5.5 and hardware profile

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by markchen 2 views

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I have two questions. First: I use IE 5.5 in Win98 SE and whenever I go to a page like YAHOO and I type some words to search. There is always a 5 second delay between the first key stroke and first letter. After that it's fine. It will start again when I change page and need to type something. Any Ideas? Senond: Is it possible to create two hardware profile in win98 SE, and set different paramaters for each. I would like to set up one network configuration for work and one for home. I have notebook and I use it at home and work. Basically two hardware profile with one with it's own IP address and network setting. Thanks in advance

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by dmiles

1)This not only happens with IE5,and it happens when the process is accessing the application,in the back ground,memory and hardware may not be accessing at the precise moment.
2)You can create user profiles,but I dont think you can create multiplenetworking profiles,configuring a system is complex as is you would truly create a problem.

by wpatrey

Unfortunately, you cannot setup different network profiles. If you are just using a modem connection at home, you can create a hardware profile which disables networking. If you have a LAN setup it is more complicated. The trick i use on my work laptop at home is to setup DHCP at home with the same IP schema as at work. If you have a router you can setup the home LAN to use the same IP addresses easily.

by canadian

What you want is not two seperate hardware profiles. You want two seperate network parameter profiles. Enter Netswitcher. A fabulous program that allows you to create multiple networking profiles. Try it. www.netswitcher.com

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