[SpamCop-Geeks] Re: Polling For Mail with OE Disconnects me from Net

[Canopus]

"Sofa King Tyred of Lar Ting" <nobody at devnull.spamcop.net> wrote in message
news:d16qk5$iq4$1 at news.spamcop.net...
> Canopus wrote:
> > Well all accounts had that ticked and the network connection box
underneath
> > was blank so OE couldn't figure out what to connect with even though I
have
> > only one network connection.  Typical example of Windoze and one up to
> > MailWasher that uses the same configuration, but, didn't get confused.
>
> You mentioned you upgraded from 98SE to XP -- the kind of problem you
> had is likely due to that, and is one reason I prefer to always format
> my HD between major OS versions.
>
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The partition I put XP on was formatted and no problems until I downloaded
the security patches and the two patches for OE one of which was the
cumulative patch for OE which I suspect may have reset some configurations
in it to default.

Rob