Name: Edwardo Date: September 5, 2006 at 06:00:29 Pacific Subject: Internet timeout OS: Windows Me CPU/Ram: Dimension 4100/128mb SDRA Model/Manufacturer: Dell
Comment:
When downloading large software files, I get a message saying that the connection has been inactive for 20 minutes and will be disconnected in xx seconds. (1) why is it 'inactive' if it is receiving info? (2) how can I prevent this from happening? I've looked everywhere but cannot find a place to change this time period.
If it should report any wrong version files then shout back "with the details" and let us know your IE version. Files can usually be found and replaced.
I ran the IE repair. When re-booted, it displayed: "Windows could not upgrade the file %1 from %2 %1: %2 Windows could not upgrade one or more system files before starting. Windows may not start or run properly. If windows fails to start, run SETUP again."
I had to restart it a couple of times to get it up.
The "Advanced" button is still dim. The box "Use a proxy server for this connection (These settings will not apply to other connections)." is not checked. I checked it and the "Advanced" was then bright and I clicked it. There is no box marked "Disconnect if idle for". I cancelled out, making no changes.
My IE is version 6.0.2800.1106 with updates SP1 thru Q916281
This should have brought up "Advanced Dial-Up screen", which contains the setting I mentioned.
You shouldn't have had to invoke Proxy Server to get the Advanced button (unless you use one), which is why I thought there might be a problem with IE.
I've never seen those error messages and it's a bit worrying that you had difficulties getting the system back up, so I prefer not to rock too many boats on that.
Not sure where to go now. Your options seem to be:
1. Running virus checker and anti-malware programs such as Ad-Aware. Bit of a long shot if there is some nasty around it might account for the errors.
2. Shut down to DOS and run scanreg /fix which might help if it is a registry problem. I usually say this is quite safe but your machine behaved strangely on that IE Repair....
3. If your reported problem only happened recently then you could run scanreg /restore and choose a date/time just before it happened. My last comment in #2 above applies tho.
4. Re-install IE (easy if you happen to have the full download saved)
5. Overlay Windows (last resort)
Sorry, can't be focussed on this - greyed out Advanced button is unusual.
The first line in my #10 applies to doing it from Windows (not during bootup). When you've done with DOS you can type exit (hit Return) to restart Windows again.
It is possible to boot to DOS but it is not necessary for the scanreg commands.
I think you meant Kernel32 rather than Keane/32. I'll have a look around but unfortunately Kernel errors are a bit of a minefield - stacks of reasons, so don't hold your breath.
Most common error is some file causing an error in kernel32. Yours is the other way about. What little I found tended to point to an IE error - which is where we were going much earlier.
Pity that repair backfired. Makes me think Windows has got screwed up somehow.
I still don't understand "You go to Start button/Shut Down then choose "Restart in MS-DOS mode". To my knowledge, I've never been offered such a choice.
Here's a link which describes how to run the registry fix on Windows ME. It also describes the optimizer too but this is not important in terms of your problem: SCANREGW /FIX
... more than one way to kill the cat. On balance probably the safest way of all is to follow the procedure given by MS below and do this from Safe Mode:
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