Thanks, Ron It was an aol diagnostic program that was
running.
-----Original Message-----
Shut down one unknown program at a time on the MSconfig
start up screen
until you find the right program.

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Ron Badour, MS MVP for W98
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"Carlo" wrote in
message
...
When I startup the computer and the desktop is showing
the
computer does a diagnostic search, searching Router,
Ipaddress, ethernet connection, etc. it does a loopback
test and then says diagnostic is complete and the I have
to click ok and it is fine. This has never happened
before
and I just installed an ethernet card and a DSL modem
and
maybe I initiated something in the start up menu to do
this. I went into msconfig and looked at the startup
files
and the only one that looks close to a diagnostic is the
AOL diag.exe. Any suggestions or is more info needed.

Thanks.


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