Re: [Hampshire] Scary

On 06/07/07, Roger Munford <rogermunford@???> wrote:
> My young son accidentally accidentally "disabled" the network from the
> network icon whilst using Windows 2000. So the browser and email stopped
> working. He couldn't explain what he had done and so I rebooted the PC.
> I couldnt find what was wrong but the Windows update message told me
> that there were a number of updates to download and so I clicked to
> download and install them which took several minutes. Later on when I
> stumbled across what was wrong and renabled the network everything
> returned to normal, browsing and email.
>
> It does appear that "disabling" the network does not actually disable
> the network as far as Microsoft is concerned or is there an explanation

A possible explanation is that "disabling the network" was in fact
disabling a network interface and another one exists on this machine.
This might be the case if you had disabled an ethernet interface, but
there was a modem or wireless interface additionally installed in the
machine.

G