How do i prevent internet explorer 'error' page loading?

[willow74]

i am running aol 9.0 broadband and when i turn my pc on it automatically loads and connects to aol.  However once loaded an internet explorer 'error cannot find page' error screen appears.  i have to close this each time.

It is obviously trying to work offline using explorer not aol.  cannot get rid of it.  any ideas

cheers

[stevie21]

Click Start, Programs and then "Startup" and see if there's a shortcut to IE (internet explorer) in there.
Failing that, click Start, Run and type
msconfig
and have a look at the startup tab. This is a bit more technical but you might see IE or something similar in there.

Does IE have a website address displayed in the address bar when you get this error page?

[willow74]

From Start, prog, start up it has  

inetsetc

can i delete this ?

[willow74]

jusr rebooted and it says

error: can't find website web

unknown host (error 500)

http://web

 

It was a work machine which i brought and the standard web was http:\\web for intranet.  its just trying to get rid of this ****** now

[adydb]

In addition if you want to use IE and not the AOL software simply go to IE>TOOLS>INTERNET OPTIONS>CONNECTIONS. In there type www.aol.com -- Then click SETTINGS and tick AUTOMATICALLY DETECT SETTINGS, and type your AOL username and password at the bottom finally OK it.

Don't worry it say's dial-up on the last bit, this will still work with an ADSL connection.