IE question? What is a RAS connection? It may be related to an difficult IE issue?
File & Settings Transfer Wizard is a handy program to transfer OR stuff, Favorites, Address Book, Desktop from an old PC to a new one.
I ran it and it worked. However it gave me a message saying:
"Could not restore some of your settings"
The it mentioned:
RAS Connections
AT & T WorldNet Service
Does anyone know what this means? I have been having a LOT of problems with this new machine and I suspect it could be related to this somehow. The problem: IE just stops working. It is working now, but when I first tried IE, I saw a long / disturbing "Detecting Proxy Settings". This is a stand-alone computer. It is not even part of it's workgroup yet.
Any info? Any experience / knowledge of this?
Thanks.
I ran it and it worked. However it gave me a message saying:
"Could not restore some of your settings"
The it mentioned:
RAS Connections
AT & T WorldNet Service
Does anyone know what this means? I have been having a LOT of problems with this new machine and I suspect it could be related to this somehow. The problem: IE just stops working. It is working now, but when I first tried IE, I saw a long / disturbing "Detecting Proxy Settings". This is a stand-alone computer. It is not even part of it's workgroup yet.
Any info? Any experience / knowledge of this?
Thanks.
ASKER
Matthew,
You probably shouldn't have asked!
Let me preface everything by saying: The computers that come out of Dell these days are polluted themselves! They have hard-to-remove stubs for McAfee and AOL. They have more advertising that HSN. It sucks.
I ended up doing a full install of Windows. Zapped all the BS partitions and it looks like XP on a blank HDD. I may start doing this! When I get a new Dell just reinstall Windows and ditch all their crap!
Here's what happened to me:
I had to migrate a Win98 (First Edition) PC to this new Dell 5510. I exported using FAST (File & Transfer Settings Wizard).
On the new PC, I began by attempting to ditch the McAfee and AOL fragments that I didn't ask for. I couldn't get McAfee's Spam thing out. I removed AOL exceptions from Windows Firewall and they came back.
Everything was working until I did the following sequence:
- Installed Ghost and did Live Updates
- Installed some HP software which installed almost as much stuff as WIndows itself - it was ridiculous. Then it complained for an hour that it couldn't find TrayApp every time I booted.
- When I tried to do my first Ghosting, I got error E73C000F, which I couldn't even reference on the Symantec web site.
Somewhere in this debacle, IE just plain-stopped-working. I would click on it and it acted like I had done something wrong! It just say there. No message, no nothing. In fact, anything I tried to check related to "Connections" practically hung the PC. I had to close it with Task Manager.
The next day, when I had the PC at home, I ran HiJackThis and MSCONFIG and AutoRuns. Nothing I could do could make IE work again.
The prior day, I did get IE back with a System Restore. But then it died again later. System Restore worked for me once at home today too.
After System Restore brought IE back, I tried installing NAV 2006. I got errors. It told me to use the Norton Removal Tool. I did. The error persisted.
(I was not real happy at this point)
Then I figured I "Repair XP". I got ERRORS doing that! It could find some .SYS file. Then it got some procedure-call type errors.
Can you feel it?
So, I called Dell - talked to their idiotic voice-prompts - and learned if you press Ctrl-F11 during boot, you get to a screen that lets you revert to "as-shipped" - as the disk was when the box was opened. Ctrl-F11 wouldn't work. (Probably because I use a PS/2 to USB converter for my KB and mouse).
So, I (Dell helped me) installed the full XP O/S - first remvoving all partitions.
Then I did FAST (File & Settings Transfer) and I'm moving forward again.
When IE came up so slow, I figured I better ask about RAS because I've been to hell and back and once is enough in a few day period.
I hope this answers your question. (smile)
You probably shouldn't have asked!
Let me preface everything by saying: The computers that come out of Dell these days are polluted themselves! They have hard-to-remove stubs for McAfee and AOL. They have more advertising that HSN. It sucks.
I ended up doing a full install of Windows. Zapped all the BS partitions and it looks like XP on a blank HDD. I may start doing this! When I get a new Dell just reinstall Windows and ditch all their crap!
Here's what happened to me:
I had to migrate a Win98 (First Edition) PC to this new Dell 5510. I exported using FAST (File & Transfer Settings Wizard).
On the new PC, I began by attempting to ditch the McAfee and AOL fragments that I didn't ask for. I couldn't get McAfee's Spam thing out. I removed AOL exceptions from Windows Firewall and they came back.
Everything was working until I did the following sequence:
- Installed Ghost and did Live Updates
- Installed some HP software which installed almost as much stuff as WIndows itself - it was ridiculous. Then it complained for an hour that it couldn't find TrayApp every time I booted.
- When I tried to do my first Ghosting, I got error E73C000F, which I couldn't even reference on the Symantec web site.
Somewhere in this debacle, IE just plain-stopped-working. I would click on it and it acted like I had done something wrong! It just say there. No message, no nothing. In fact, anything I tried to check related to "Connections" practically hung the PC. I had to close it with Task Manager.
The next day, when I had the PC at home, I ran HiJackThis and MSCONFIG and AutoRuns. Nothing I could do could make IE work again.
The prior day, I did get IE back with a System Restore. But then it died again later. System Restore worked for me once at home today too.
After System Restore brought IE back, I tried installing NAV 2006. I got errors. It told me to use the Norton Removal Tool. I did. The error persisted.
(I was not real happy at this point)
Then I figured I "Repair XP". I got ERRORS doing that! It could find some .SYS file. Then it got some procedure-call type errors.
Can you feel it?
So, I called Dell - talked to their idiotic voice-prompts - and learned if you press Ctrl-F11 during boot, you get to a screen that lets you revert to "as-shipped" - as the disk was when the box was opened. Ctrl-F11 wouldn't work. (Probably because I use a PS/2 to USB converter for my KB and mouse).
So, I (Dell helped me) installed the full XP O/S - first remvoving all partitions.
Then I did FAST (File & Settings Transfer) and I'm moving forward again.
When IE came up so slow, I figured I better ask about RAS because I've been to hell and back and once is enough in a few day period.
I hope this answers your question. (smile)
Wow!
So it sounds like you are at a clean XP install right now. IE is working, you may need to turn off automatically detect proxy settings to prevent the delay. RAS is probably not going to cause you any problems.
So right now you are up and running?
So it sounds like you are at a clean XP install right now. IE is working, you may need to turn off automatically detect proxy settings to prevent the delay. RAS is probably not going to cause you any problems.
So right now you are up and running?
ASKER
I am up and running now.
I am in the process of installing (66) WIndows updates.
I tried, but couldn't find how to shut off updates. <- please list the steps to do this
I don't know what RAS is and why it's on this PC. He CAN see his email. I guess this was necessary before he had hi-speed internet or something.
After the Windows updates, I'll install Norton AntiVirus 2006 - and do it's Live Update.
Then I'll install Norton Ghost and do it's Live Updates.
Then I'll install Office 2003.
Then I'll install his printer.
Then I'll attempt to Ghost his PC to a USB external drive.
Then, I should be done.
I am in the process of installing (66) WIndows updates.
I tried, but couldn't find how to shut off updates. <- please list the steps to do this
I don't know what RAS is and why it's on this PC. He CAN see his email. I guess this was necessary before he had hi-speed internet or something.
After the Windows updates, I'll install Norton AntiVirus 2006 - and do it's Live Update.
Then I'll install Norton Ghost and do it's Live Updates.
Then I'll install Office 2003.
Then I'll install his printer.
Then I'll attempt to Ghost his PC to a USB external drive.
Then, I should be done.
ASKER
Oh, I see: Internet Options -> LAN settings
I'll try that.
I'll try that.
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RAS Connections are remote access connections such as dial up, vpn etc. Do you still use ATT service. If you are on the internet then your ISP software or settings are working and didnt need to be migrated from the old computer.
Your computer is a member of a workgroup, but this has nothing to do with it.
What types of problems are you running into with IE not working? Do you have the latest updates, virus protection software etc.?