Work offline?

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david

I recently developed a problem where everytime I launch
Explorer I get a message stating that I am not connected
when in fact I am. When I click the try again button,
everything works fine, but the constant error message is
annoying. I can't find some logical way to get around
this problem. Any ideas?
 
One common message seen especially by DSL users with PPPoE
software is easily misinterpreted. Before the first connection IE
does not see that there is a connection. This is exactly analogous to
a Dial-Up user who has specified Never Dial in Settings being told that
there is no connection would he like to Work Offline or Retry? In the
case of the Dial-Up user the Retry option implies that he has manually
established a connection that should be retried. In the case of the DSL
user the Retry means the same thing but usually no manual intervention
is required.

You could probably avoid the Retry by doing something else first which
required connectivity such as a ping -n 1 command in a command
window. Of course a dial-up user would be prompted for that case too
so it's not inconceivable that there might even a prompt there for the DSL
user but I suspect that the ping command is blunt enough that it doesn't
really look whether it is appropriate to try sending its packet or not and
the act of sending it is enough to activate the link.
 
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