HoppaLong Posted January 14, 2017 Share Posted January 14, 2017 XP Pro_SP3 There is cell and broadband service in my small, rural town. I've lived here for 10 years. About once or twice each month broadband drops out for several hours. A very inexpensive dial-up ISP is a good backup. IE 6.0 is installed with SP3. I've always used Mozilla browsers, so I never had any reason to update IE. I was beginning to have a few page rendering problems, so I decided to try other lightweight browsers. A couple recommended IE 7.0 or better, so I installed IE 8.0. (I edited out all personal info from the attached images.) You can create your own WinINet and RAS scripts, but NirCmd does the job with a simple shortcut. Before installing IE 8.0, NirCmd "inetdial" used the wininet.dll and launched the active dialog box you see in the image. I really like this dialog box. After dialing a number it displays the connection info you want to see. NirCmd "rasdialdlg" opens dial-up properties if you need to change the settings. After installing IE 8.0 (and a newer version of wininet.dll) NirCmd "inetdial" opens dial-up properties, not the active dialog box that connects you to the web! There are other ways of connecting like creating a shortcut to the RAS phonebook file or rasphone.pbk. There are also many applets that will do the job. I don't like any of these alternatives. If possble, I want to restore that active WinINet dialog box. I don't know why NirCmd "inetdial" stopped working after installing IE 8.0. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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