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Connect using a dial up modem greyed out in XP?!
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<blockquote data-quote="PoloMint" data-source="post: 84181" data-attributes="member: 175235"><p>I'm trying to set up a dial up connection here in case the broadband goes down, but when I try and set up a connection to the internet I am unable to select 'connect using a dial up modem' as it is greyed out:</p><p></p><p><img src="http://138.251.10.18/~lumo/pics/DialUpError.JPG" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p>I've been through the MS knowledge base and usenet groups and the two main causes of this seem to be services not running or missing registry entries – both of these seem to be ok on the system.</p><p></p><p>What's more the system did have a dial up connection before, when I installed windows about six months ago I put it on, but it is no longer present. It's not my system so I don't know when or why it disappeared, it was never used except to test it.</p><p></p><p>The system is XP Pro with SP2</p><p></p><p>The only things I can think of now are system restore, but I've just spent ages setting up scheduled tasks and doing general system tweaking so don't want to have to do that again, or getting a disk from another ISP that comes with it's own dialer and changing that for the ISP we want – telefonicanet. But that's messy and might not work anyway as bits of windows seem to be missing, so I'd rather get them back and set it up properly.</p><p></p><p>Anyone got any ideas as to how to get dial up connections back?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="PoloMint, post: 84181, member: 175235"] I'm trying to set up a dial up connection here in case the broadband goes down, but when I try and set up a connection to the internet I am unable to select 'connect using a dial up modem' as it is greyed out: [img]http://138.251.10.18/~lumo/pics/DialUpError.JPG[/img] I've been through the MS knowledge base and usenet groups and the two main causes of this seem to be services not running or missing registry entries – both of these seem to be ok on the system. What's more the system did have a dial up connection before, when I installed windows about six months ago I put it on, but it is no longer present. It's not my system so I don't know when or why it disappeared, it was never used except to test it. The system is XP Pro with SP2 The only things I can think of now are system restore, but I've just spent ages setting up scheduled tasks and doing general system tweaking so don't want to have to do that again, or getting a disk from another ISP that comes with it's own dialer and changing that for the ISP we want – telefonicanet. But that's messy and might not work anyway as bits of windows seem to be missing, so I'd rather get them back and set it up properly. Anyone got any ideas as to how to get dial up connections back? [/QUOTE]
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