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[glc]

Look in your XP network connections, and remove all "bridged" connections - it sounds like you ran the XP networking wizard and answered the questions incorrectly.

[BedRock]

That is entirely likely. At one pont I did have a bridge. I tried to remove all the connections, and I think i did.. But, my pc still fails to connect to internet.

I am thinking I shour format the drive that has xp on it and try to reload from scratch, this time answering questions right.

Do you know what answers I should use given the configuration of pc connected to router connected to cable modem where i do not use microsoft's firewall or the stuff where all pc's connect thru my xp pc.

I fI knew for sure what to answer, I would try the entire reload approach. Or, if thre is a place i should look to see any bridge connections I didn't yet remove, I would try that first.

However the window that contains my wireless connection Icon contains ONLY the wireless connection icon. Before I cleaned it up, it had a bridge connection as well.


Thx
JimL

[glc]

As I remember, the first choice in the wizard should be "other", then "this computer is connected directly to the Internet", then do NOT enable the firewall and dismiss the dire warning. Connecting through a router is essentially the same thing as being directly connected, your PC needs to see the router as the DHCP server and gateway. If you enable the firewall, you won't be able to share files and printers over your lan.