Internet browser problem

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TonyLS

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I loaded win98 on an older laptop. Everything things to be running fine except for one annoying problem. When I start the system and load up an internet browser nothing loads. I have to kill the load and enter the website again. I have to do this 2 or 3 times and then the browser will work properly every time while the laptop is powered. When I power down or restart I have to go through the same sequence to get a webpage.

Any ideas?

Thanks
 
welcome to windows 98

make sure you run windows update and get everything current. You should also install firefox and use it instead. It's a lot more stable and less resource hungry
 
Thanks, forgot to mention that this happens with firefox also.

I haven't run windows update. Ithought win98 uodate isn't available since microsoft isn't supporting win98. Is this not the case?
 
They might not support it anymore, but it still does not mean you have the MOST updated version of Win98. I think they stopped supporting Win98 in 2003. Your disk was made before that point so chances are you will have some updates.... and I would bet some of them deal with IE.
 
Granted but since he was using Firefox, any updates to IE wouldnt be an issue ... just a question though ... say you power up the system and leave it for a few minutes (say 5) and then try to goto a website .. does it work the first time? (im guessing at DHCP taking a long time)
 
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