My ISP (Rogers Hi-Speed Internet) has installed Self
Healing Software in my PC to help in diagnosing any
problems I might have. I'm also running Win98SE. The
following is an excerpt from the log they run on startup.
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10.27.2004.0.55 Browser Configuration Begins
10.27.2004.0.55 HTTP request for Homepage:
http://tvlistings2.zap2it.com/grid.a...er_id=national
was successful
10.27.2004.0.55 Homepage Resolves
10.27.2004.0.55 Proxy Configuration Begins
10.27.2004.0.55 Proxy configuration causes some
systems to fail with windows update, please let us know if
your system is affected
10.27.2004.0.55 Checking to see if this has
previously been set...
10.27.2004.0.55 YES! IE Proxy was forced to Automatic
Detection on previous Run
10.27.2004.0.55 This is a Windows Style Registry
10.27.2004.0.55 Checking for 98a Byte Type Bug...
10.27.2004.0.55 Proxy returned correct type: Byte()
10.27.2004.0.55 Checking Browser proxy settings
10.27.2004.0.55 Default portion of Proxy is already
set to Autodetect... Good!
10.27.2004.0.55 Legacy portion of Proxy is already
set to Autodetect... Good!
10.27.2004.0.55 Address for automatic configuration
script could not be located... Good!
10.27.2004.0.55 Proxy Configuration Ends
10.27.2004.0.55 Browser Configuration Ends
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I have some dificulties in getting my home network going
properly, too, but it seems my ISP Rogers has done
something to combat the "98a Byte Type Bug".
I hope this helps somewhat.
.......................... Hans
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>-----Original Message-----
>please can some one help. i am running windows 98 se and
>had broadband installed, which will not work. the
>technician tells me there is a patch missing in windows
98
>to run broadband, is this correct? an if so can i
download
>the right patch to fix the problem?
>.
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