"A sometimes troublesome setting, that could be in your old dialup connection setup, is an "always use this connection" "

Set to 'never dial a connection' - I often work offline.


"For current OS versions, there are downloadable "CD format" files including all current patches, that Sys Admins can get for updating their fleets of computers,"

The ability to get the last one for 98SE would be wonderful... would even PAY MS for it...


"you may be able to save during download so you can install manually later. You might be able to save all the "install" files (if you have to get them again) so that you'd have them for future use; but some of them have to be installed in the order issued so you'd need to do some careful record keeping. "

Played that game before - it drives you nuts...

I CAN connect to the new ISP by clicking on the icon - they DO seem to have regular tech hassles - modems etc, but my hassle is just that the popup that remembers and stores the username and password for just the new connection seems to have died (so I have to do it manually), as well as the trouble shoot section.

Thanks for your time John, but of limited assistance...

I could fi/uddle with the ... oops that Win98RK seems to have suffered bit rot too... :-)