Steve CDN
Well-known member
I decided to try DSL this week after having held out using dialup since the beginning of time. The provider supplied a wizard CD installation disk, which made me suspicious, but not having experience setting up a DSL connection, I submitted and used it for the step by step installation.
My worst fears were realized when I discovered the disk installed a help utility which hijacked Systray and ultimately caused by system to crash on loading.
There was some other utility installed which persisted in trying to call out, which I blocked with ZoneAlarm.
Once I uninstalled all the unwanted self serving utilities installed by the wizard disk, the DSL connection is working fine and the computer is stable again.
The DSL modem is hard wired to the network connection of the computer.
I want to install the DSL connection on another machine, but don't want to use the wizard disk. Could someone walk me through how to set up a network connection manually on a machine that has never had a previous activated network connection.
Does Windows provide a wizard for connecting my wired DSL modem and if so what setting do I need to be aware of?
Thanks!
My worst fears were realized when I discovered the disk installed a help utility which hijacked Systray and ultimately caused by system to crash on loading.
There was some other utility installed which persisted in trying to call out, which I blocked with ZoneAlarm.
Once I uninstalled all the unwanted self serving utilities installed by the wizard disk, the DSL connection is working fine and the computer is stable again.
The DSL modem is hard wired to the network connection of the computer.
I want to install the DSL connection on another machine, but don't want to use the wizard disk. Could someone walk me through how to set up a network connection manually on a machine that has never had a previous activated network connection.
Does Windows provide a wizard for connecting my wired DSL modem and if so what setting do I need to be aware of?
Thanks!