...enable autodialing, it dutifully changes the registry setting to 00 00 00 00. Then the next time I reboot, it's back to 01 00 00 00.

Ooops. I wrote that at work trying to remember how my home computer behaved, and of course I got it backwards. When it is at 01 00 00 00 autodialing does work. Unfortunately, every time I reboot it gets changed to 00 00 00 00 and autodialing is turned off.

Tony was nice enough to send me a simple patch that runs out of the Startup menu. The patch will turn autodialing back on, but whatever it is that is turning autodialing off is happening after the Startup menu items run. If I run his patch after the boot process is complete, autodial will work normally, until I reboot again.

I have copied the icon for Tony's patch into my system tray next to my Netscape and IE icons, and I just click Tony's icon one time before starting the others. It works, but of course the true moral satisfaction will come from defeating this bug altogether.

tanstaafl.



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