This is pretty far off-topic, but my ISP has no answers for me (at least not any that I care for) so I figured I would ask the most technically astute group of people I know.

There is apparrently a bug in the Windows 98/Netscape combination that strikes rarely and randomly. What happens is that the computer no longer causes the modem to autodial the connection when I click on the Netscape icon.

A check of Start/Settings/ControlPanel/InternetOptions/Connections reveals that the autodial setting is set to "Never Dial". If I change this setting to "Always Dial" then everything works properly until the next time I reboot my computer, then it is back to "Never Dial".

My ISP tech support tells me that this is a known but uncommon problem, and that the only way to fix it is to re-install Windows.

I can verify that this bug is real, and that I have it. Has anybody else ever heard of this? More importantly, has anybody else ever found a solution?

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