Hello Gentle LEMListers, I just yesterday updated Acrobat Reader on our iMac Rev A (OS 8.6; 384 megs RAM) at home. Now IE 5.1 is not connecting to any of my bookmarks saved on it. Our ISP 'provider' is AOL and we are using vers 4.0 ...
Let me qualify the above: The AOL vers 4.0 is my 80 year old mother's account and she does not want to upgrade AOL as she doesn't want 'to have to relearn everything' -her words. So leaving (or upgrading) AOL is not the 'fix' we're looking for -or at least it is the very last gasp resort. After installing the new Acrobat Reader (upgrading it from vers 3.0) so that I could properly read a new online newsletter from a local garden club, IE ceased to connect with my bookmarks (saved on IE) which had been working up until the Acrobat Reader install, during which there were a couple of prompts asking to disable something due to that vers of Reader not being able to connect online. (I don't much care if Acrobat doesn't access online stuff, as I only wanted it for reading already downloaded stuff!) Later after the install was complete and I tried to go thru IE to look at some bookmarked sites I began to get a message that IE could not connect to the site. Then I went into the Preferences and tried to figure out what settings might have been altered during the Reader install and after trying to change some settings that looked like they might be involved, I have apparently unhooked IE from AOL and now get 'Server Not Found' messages when I try any of my IE bookmarks... I have Norton Utilities and was wondering whether I can use it to restore the settings for IE back to those of a couple of days ago, before the Acrobat Reader upgrade was installed. Can this be done without messing up the new Acrobat Reader 5.05's settings? I haven't had occasion to use Norton Utilities for this before and so am not sure how, or if, that is an appropriate way to fix this problem. Otherwise, can I just restore the IE prefs so that it recognizes AOL as the ISP? I can't find anything in the IE help that seems to apply and I am *not* PC literate for setting up an ISP (i.e., IE 5.1) so that it accesses the internet thru AOL 4.0, so any suggestions for how to restore IE, will be GREATLY appreciated. TIA Paul Mitchell Tampa, FL - PS- I can access all my IE bookmarked sites directly thru AOL, even now, but thru IE, I cannot. Also, the default page on IE, < http://livepage.apple.com/ >, still opens up when I access IE, and I can access all the links on it. -Paul M. -- -- The iMac List is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | - Epson Stylus Color 580 Printers - new at $69 | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> iMac List info: <http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/imac-list%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
