JohnInKansas said:

Dave O -
I perhaps wasn't clear in saying that if you wanted to you could set the machine up so that you and your wife could log on as different machine users, and if you did that you could each have your browser automatically log on to the appropriate ISP account when you change the user logon. Since it's rather difficult to revert back to a single-user set up, all the blow-and-puff was by way of warning you to proceed with caution.

I don't believe I would want to do anything like that, John. Either my wife or I get on the machine from bootup in exactly the same way, "for all users", as they say. Only when Netscape is activated do I get the Netscape Profile Manager, in which she or I would choose our individual net identity. Hers hooks to Yahoo; mine to Mudcat as home page. Hers, in Netscape's inbox, gets her email, and mine gets mine. Hers projects her identity to web sites, and mine does mine. We use the computer in common, from one hour to another interchangeably, and I have no wish nor intention of disturbing that situation.

When you start the machine, the machine should wait until you tell it to make a connection.

We are on DSL. When we boot, the connection facility runs automatically as part of the startup. It does not disconnect when we leave the browser, just as you say. I CAN disconnect through the connection manager icon on the desktop, but seldom if ever have seen a reason to.

When my lockup problem recurs (as it will), I'll try disconnecting and then reconnecting, as my first option. If that doesn't do it, I'll try the three finger salute.   I should expect that one or the other of those actions should clear things up without reboot.

Thanx.
Dave Oesterreich