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schultzie
April 20th, 2008, 12:33 AM
My father and I cannot, for the life of us, figure out how to get the internet on anything other than his main account. All the new accounts have administrator privileges. He imported the link for Firefox, but it won't connect to the internet without a labour-intensive process. And, if you hadn't already figured it out, Schultzie's lazy.


Anyone know how to go about getting the internet to work?


(It means I can actually get myself MSN if you do ^^")



Anyone? Anyone?
/movie quote jacking.
Aquamonet
April 20th, 2008, 04:27 AM
Are you on cable, broadband, dial-up, wireless?
schultzie
April 20th, 2008, 04:32 AM
dial up (ugh)
cat_lover_4113
April 21st, 2008, 07:44 PM
There should be no problem. The internet should work on every account. It does on this computer, and two of the accounts don't have administator privelages.

I looked up this on the internet and managed to get a few questions about this asked on Yahoo! Answers.

One answer was to use System Restore to before a time that this was happening.

Another was that this happens a lot, and to put all the data from the account in another one, then delete the one that won't work.

I would do the second answer first, because a few people on Yahoo! Answers that have used System Restore have had problems.
schultzie
April 24th, 2008, 01:56 AM
Thanks Cat. I'll see what happens...

*crosses fingers*
cat_lover_4113
April 24th, 2008, 10:50 AM
I would also wait for someone here to give their account on using System Restore.

One, never used it, so don't know what it will really do.

Two, use it, and you may lose something just to get the internet back.

Keep with the account deleting, I say.
schultzie
May 9th, 2008, 12:02 AM
... it ended up being something really, really stupid with Firefox. My dad clicked something and now it works ^^
Claidhmore
May 9th, 2008, 02:51 AM
's probably something about using it with all profiles and not just the one it was installed on. :o Windows r dum
WyldWyl
May 9th, 2008, 11:11 AM
Pack in windows and get ubuntu. Its the only logical solution.
schultzie
May 14th, 2008, 02:04 AM
On my own laptop I shall.... when I get around to buying it...

I don't frig around with dad's computer. bad things happen to me if I do >_>