Hey, I am having a problem connecting to the internet. I click on the internet explorer icon and the internet window comes up along with a connection screen. When i click the connect button, instead of dialing the ISP number, a screen pops up “operator assisted or manual dial” and under that it says to pick up my phone and dial the ISP number then press ok and hang up my phone. It gets very annoying.
My internet used to work fine. I would click on the icon and then click connect and it would dial the ISP number on it’s own and I would be connected. I don’t know when it happened, but one day it just popped up and it’s been that way since.
Then recently, my internet suddenly stopped working all together. I did a System Restore (makes your computer settings and most files exactly like they were at the point you restore to) to try and fix it. I restored to many different dates. I found there were three different “sections” of dates. In the farthest section back in time, the internet worked perfect but a lot of programs and games where not there and every thing was jerky and slow for some strange reason. And every time the computer thought, the mouse would be jumping and jerky not smooth. The second section was where the internet had the manual dial but the mouse and programs were fine. The last section was the same as the second but the internet didn’t work at all. The first two sections consisted of about a month and the last about a week.
I think the last restore took me to the the date before i did any restores (that is in the third section) but my internet works with that manual dial thing.
Can you help me. if you have any questions or anything is unclea, please ask and i will try to explain better
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Ben Edwards