| Another dial-ip problem has occured. After successfully connecting to
| the Internet, sometimes, when I disconnect, some corruption appears to
| occur and the whole system from then on works sluggishly. Shutting down
| takes an age,  Booting up works until I get to the "Preparing  network
| connections'. This stage hangs for about 3 minutes, (instead of
| appearing for a second) until booting resumes.to normal. The Events
| Viewer show 'DNS Client Service hung on starting'.
|
| Once fully booted, if I dial up, after verification I arrive at the
| 'Registering your computer on the Internet' message. The system then
| hangs for about  3 minutes then the connection fails with 'error 619'.
| Booting from cold doesn't fix the problem either. If I restore my
| system state from a previous backup before the trouble started, it
| still doesn't cure the problem. The only solution is to to a fast
| repair from the Windows  system disk. But it is very tedious to have to
| keep doing this.
|
| DoesWindows 2000 have a bug when using dial-up?
|

| It means when this service is loaded on booting it is set to automatic,
| ie not manual or disabled
| >
| > until I run into the
| > | problems as outlined. I wasn't even aware of this service, but I have
| > | disabled it now. Looking back, I've seen many other people have come
| > | unstuck with the same problem. Would that have been the reason why my
| > | system was getting screwed up?
| > * No it would not "screw up" the system. Just mis-configuration.
|
| In which case, the problems that I outlined in my op can't be
| connected with DNSCS running
| automatically.
|

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>
> Dave Patrick wrote:
>
> > Glad to hear it's sorted.
> >
> Clearly you are a troll.
>

"Dave Patrick" <DSPatrick@nospam.gmail.com> wrote in message
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> No it doesn't. Why are you running the DNS Client service?
>
> --
>
> Regards,
>
> Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
> Microsoft Certified Professional
> Microsoft MVP [Windows]
> http://www.microsoft.com/protect
>
> <fb***@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> | Another dial-ip problem has occured. After successfully connecting to
> | the Internet, sometimes, when I disconnect, some corruption appears to
> | occur and the whole system from then on works sluggishly. Shutting down
> | takes an age,  Booting up works until I get to the "Preparing  network
> | connections'. This stage hangs for about 3 minutes, (instead of
> | appearing for a second) until booting resumes.to normal. The Events
> | Viewer show 'DNS Client Service hung on starting'.
> |
> | Once fully booted, if I dial up, after verification I arrive at the
> | 'Registering your computer on the Internet' message. The system then
> | hangs for about  3 minutes then the connection fails with 'error 619'.
> | Booting from cold doesn't fix the problem either. If I restore my
> | system state from a previous backup before the trouble started, it
> | still doesn't cure the problem. The only solution is to to a fast
> | repair from the Windows  system disk. But it is very tedious to have to
> | keep doing this.
> |
> | DoesWindows 2000 have a bug when using dial-up?
> |
>
>

"George Hester" <hesterl***@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> DND Client Service is enabled by default and is set to automatic startup.
> Stopping that service from running should not be a problem but if it hangs
> at startup that issue needs to be addressed.  And no this is not a bug in
> Windows 2000 it is likely a bug in the Connect software you are using or
> with the Modem.  Is that WinPOET?
>
> --
>
> George Hester
> _________________________________
> "Dave Patrick" <DSPatrick@nospam.gmail.com> wrote in message
> news:Osq7ecoKGHA.1312@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
> > No it doesn't. Why are you running the DNS Client service?
> >
> > --
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
> > Microsoft Certified Professional
> > Microsoft MVP [Windows]
> > http://www.microsoft.com/protect
> >
> > <fb***@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> > | Another dial-ip problem has occured. After successfully connecting to
> > | the Internet, sometimes, when I disconnect, some corruption appears to
> > | occur and the whole system from then on works sluggishly. Shutting
down
> > | takes an age,  Booting up works until I get to the "Preparing  network
> > | connections'. This stage hangs for about 3 minutes, (instead of
> > | appearing for a second) until booting resumes.to normal. The Events
> > | Viewer show 'DNS Client Service hung on starting'.
> > |
> > | Once fully booted, if I dial up, after verification I arrive at the
> > | 'Registering your computer on the Internet' message. The system then
> > | hangs for about  3 minutes then the connection fails with 'error 619'.
> > | Booting from cold doesn't fix the problem either. If I restore my
> > | system state from a previous backup before the trouble started, it
> > | still doesn't cure the problem. The only solution is to to a fast
> > | repair from the Windows  system disk. But it is very tedious to have
to
> > | keep doing this.
> > |
> > | DoesWindows 2000 have a bug when using dial-up?
> > |
> >
> >
>