Gunner said:
When connecting to broadband, I find that I cannot
disconnect from the broadband and when I try to shutdown
it will not shutdown properly. The computer will hang on
the 'saving your setting' screen.
I have looked at the properties for both the modem and
the broadband connection settings as well as looking at
my IE properties. I can't see anything wrong with it.
Does anyone have any suggestions
Cheers,
Gunner
Using ASDL or cable modem?
If ASDL and can't disconnect ... best to ask the service provider (who
presumably provided the connection software).
If cable modem ... my cable modem access doesn't have any special
software so I'm not sure what to look for.
Re seeming to hang on "saving your setting" ... have you left it alone
for a *long* time to see what happens? Maybe after a while it will give
you an error message to help figure out?
On my laptop, I get a very long "saving your setting" time simply
becuase the laptop is logged into a domain via wireless connection. XP
is copying all the files from my "profile" from laptop to the domain
server. Since there is a lot of stuff there (and I keep trying to prune
it to be only the minimum required), it simply takes a while on the
relatively slow wireless Lan connection.
I'm just wondering, if for some reason i can't readily explain, that
your machine is trying to copy stuff from XP back to some network
resource related to broadband connection. I'm not saying necessarily
that the information is getting copied back, but XP is trying to do
something related to shutdown for which it expects to see a broadband
network reource. It's not seeing it, so it just stalls waiting for it
to come back.
I know this not completely useful, but maybe food for your thought.
