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In article <347835ca.25314584@news.demon.co.uk>, Alan Milewczyk
<alan@prosper.demon.co.uk> writes
>In the file menau, IE4 has an option, work offline. If this is then
>the toggle remains when you load up IE4 - I am trying to schedule
>certain activities automatically and if I have set this tab to
>"offline" from a previous activity, then my ISP is not dialled up.
>
>What I want to do, is, IRRESPECTIVE of whether the system is set for
>offline or not, for me to be able to set it to online automatically
>using a scheduling program. 
>
>Any thoughts?
>
>
>
>Regards
>
>Alan
>
>* Alan Milewczyk alan@prosper.demon.co.uk
>* Greetings from Glorious Glossop in the High Peak, Derbyshire, UK
I don't know if this helps but since installing ie4 I found a task
scheduler which I use to run defrag once a month. I think you should be
able to use this to connect at a regular time each day or week etc..
However can't find folder - shortcut to it at the mo except on the
taskbar (bottom right)
-- 
Corinne

Copy the Connection Wizard shortcut to the Scheduled Tasks folder.

Jon Davis

Alan Milewczyk wrote in message <347835ca.25314584@news.demon.co.uk>...
>In the file menau, IE4 has an option, work offline. If this is then
>the toggle remains when you load up IE4 - I am trying to schedule
>certain activities automatically and if I have set this tab to
>"offline" from a previous activity, then my ISP is not dialled up.
>
>What I want to do, is, IRRESPECTIVE of whether the system is set for
>offline or not, for me to be able to set it to online automatically
>using a scheduling program.
>
>Any thoughts?
>
>
>
>Regards
>
>Alan
>
>* Alan Milewczyk alan@prosper.demon.co.uk
>* Greetings from Glorious Glossop in the High Peak, Derbyshire, UK

Corinne Brooks <Corinne@quizlady.demon.co.uk> wrote:

>In article <347835ca.25314584@news.demon.co.uk>, Alan Milewczyk
><alan@prosper.demon.co.uk> writes
>>In the file menau, IE4 has an option, work offline. If this is then
>>the toggle remains when you load up IE4 - I am trying to schedule
>>certain activities automatically and if I have set this tab to
>>"offline" from a previous activity, then my ISP is not dialled up.
>>
>>What I want to do, is, IRRESPECTIVE of whether the system is set for
>>offline or not, for me to be able to set it to online automatically
>>using a scheduling program. 
>>
>>Any thoughts?
>>
>>
>>
>>Regards
>>
>>Alan
>>
>>* Alan Milewczyk alan@prosper.demon.co.uk
>>* Greetings from Glorious Glossop in the High Peak, Derbyshire, UK
>I don't know if this helps but since installing ie4 I found a task
>scheduler which I use to run defrag once a month. I think you should be
>able to use this to connect at a regular time each day or week etc..
>However can't find folder - shortcut to it at the mo except on the
>taskbar (bottom right)

This message was crossposted to another group where someone replied
with a registry file which sets the system to online operation.


Regards

Alan

* Alan Milewczyk alan@prosper.demon.co.uk
* Greetings from Glorious Glossop in the High Peak, Derbyshire, UK

I have not found a "legitimate" way of doing what you want.

For what it's worth, here are a couple of registry keys that seem to be
relevant. You may be able to do something with them.

REGEDIT4
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet
Settings]
"GlobalUserOffline"=dword:00000001
"AutoConnect"=hex:00,00,00,00


--
Martin Williams
mw@willms.demon.co.uk

Alan Milewczyk wrote in message <347835ca.25314584@news.demon.co.uk>...
>In the file menau, IE4 has an option, work offline. If this is then
>the toggle remains when you load up IE4 - I am trying to schedule
>certain activities automatically and if I have set this tab to
>"offline" from a previous activity, then my ISP is not dialled up.
>
>What I want to do, is, IRRESPECTIVE of whether the system is set for
>offline or not, for me to be able to set it to online automatically
>using a scheduling program.
>
>Any thoughts?
>
>
>
>Regards
>
>Alan
>
>* Alan Milewczyk alan@prosper.demon.co.uk
>* Greetings from Glorious Glossop in the High Peak, Derbyshire, UK

I wasn't clear, what was the automation tool called and where can it
be found?
john

On Mon, 24 Nov 1997 21:10:24 -0000, "Martin Williams"
<mw@willms.demon.co.uk> wrote:

>I have not found a "legitimate" way of doing what you want.
>
>For what it's worth, here are a couple of registry keys that seem to be
>relevant. You may be able to do something with them.
>
>REGEDIT4
>[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet
>Settings]
>"GlobalUserOffline"=dword:00000001
>"AutoConnect"=hex:00,00,00,00

I forget too - but no automation tool that I'm aware of ( other than
subscription update, of course. And maybe that's all that's needed ? ).

The problem is that IE4 ( and other progs ) can now use the Work-Offline
setting to control whether they attempt access to the network or not. ( See
Drop down menu under Explorer | File, or Outlook express etc. )

So if you're trying to automate, you will need to control that setting as
part of your automation. Otherwise you may not connect.

Also - the IE4 dialler connect dialog has a button somewhere that
enables/disables auto-connection.

Disabled - you get a prompt before the dial-up activates.
Enabled - it just connects.

Catch 22 - when enabled, you don't get the dialog, so you can't set it to
disabled except by pressing cancel when dialling.

( Automatic subscription updates set this to "enabled". )

Anyway - if you're automating with a dial-up, you may need to be able
control this setting - depends on how you configure IE4 net connection.


--
Martin Williams
mw@willms.demon.co.uk

John Banister wrote in message <34856f67.18015917@news.pacbell.net>...
>I wasn't clear, what was the automation tool called and where can it
>be found?
>john
>
>On Mon, 24 Nov 1997 21:10:24 -0000, "Martin Williams"
><mw@willms.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>
>>I have not found a "legitimate" way of doing what you want.
>>
>>For what it's worth, here are a couple of registry keys that seem to be
>>relevant. You may be able to do something with them.
>>
>>REGEDIT4
>>[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet
>>Settings]
>>"GlobalUserOffline"=dword:00000001
>>"AutoConnect"=hex:00,00,00,00
>

jban@pacbell.net (John Banister) wrote:

>I wasn't clear, what was the automation tool called and where can it
>be found?
>john
>
I started the thread by asking about the Subscriptions option in IE4.
This allows you to update web pages automatically - for example, every
Thursday afternoon a web page is updated posting what's happening in
Coronation Street next week (yeah, I know I'm a sad man!). Previously
I used to do this manually - using the subscription option, I can now
set IE4 to dial up every Thursday at 17:00 and download the updated
page for me. Cute, eh? What's more, I finally got it to work - if this
is what you are after, let me know and I'll repost instructions.

The particular reason for this thread was as follows - you can set IE4
to work in offline mode. As offline work is a toggle control, I might
have set it previously when viewing something offline and forget to
reset it back on online work - that then stopped automatic downloads
because the system would look up the IE4 cache rather than going
online -  someone posted me a registry key to make sure that,
irrespective of what I set it to, when I loaded IE4 it would always
come on in online mode. If you need this registry key let me know.






Regards

Alan

* Alan Milewczyk alan@prosper.demon.co.uk
* Greetings from Glorious Glossop in the High Peak, Derbyshire, UK

You don't need the registry key for that.

It is sufficient, I think to set up as follows:

Control Panel | Internet Settings:

Dial-Up Settings tab - Tick box Connect automatically to update
subscriptions
Advanced tab - Tick box Enable scheduled subscription updates.

But I do reset those two registry keys after I've started up.


--
Martin Williams
mw@willms.demon.co.uk

Alan Milewczyk wrote in message <348893df.25460777@news.demon.co.uk>...
>jban@pacbell.net (John Banister) wrote:
>
>>I wasn't clear, what was the automation tool called and where can it
>>be found?
>>john
>>
>I started the thread by asking about the Subscriptions option in IE4.
>This allows you to update web pages automatically - for example, every
>Thursday afternoon a web page is updated posting what's happening in
>Coronation Street next week (yeah, I know I'm a sad man!). Previously
>I used to do this manually - using the subscription option, I can now
>set IE4 to dial up every Thursday at 17:00 and download the updated
>page for me. Cute, eh? What's more, I finally got it to work - if this
>is what you are after, let me know and I'll repost instructions.
>
>The particular reason for this thread was as follows - you can set IE4
>to work in offline mode. As offline work is a toggle control, I might
>have set it previously when viewing something offline and forget to
>reset it back on online work - that then stopped automatic downloads
>because the system would look up the IE4 cache rather than going
>online -  someone posted me a registry key to make sure that,
>irrespective of what I set it to, when I loaded IE4 it would always
>come on in online mode. If you need this registry key let me know.
>
>
>
>
>
>
>Regards
>
>Alan
>
>* Alan Milewczyk alan@prosper.demon.co.uk
>* Greetings from Glorious Glossop in the High Peak, Derbyshire, UK