Wireless internet and getting the browser to connect

[bob2001]

well my dad is working away from home and just took his laptop away with him. Untill now he has been talking to us over skype with other peoples laptops, now he has his one over their he can talk with us over skype but internet explorer wont connect to any web pages, it keeps asking him to dial up.

 

 

 

My question being, how can skype work, but internet explorer not?!

 

 

 

im geussing its to do ith the settings witch i think i could maybe play about with if i was actualy their to do it, but i dont want to tell him to do anything unless im fairly sure it will work because ihe isnt to hot on computers.

 

 

 

It has windows xp installed and he wants to connect to the internet with internet explorer (i.e. dont bother bashing me about using explorer because it wont make any differance)

 

 

 

Thanks in advance.

[wooden_fire]

Go to tools -> internet options in internet explorer. Then go to the connections tab and make sure that

 

 

 

Never dial an internet connection is checked.

 

 

 

Then go to lan settings and make sure automatically detect settings is checked.

[bob2001]

great, thanks for that, i suspected it was to do with that and was almost abotu to tell him to try that but was too afraid it would totaly mess up his internet. anyway thanks alot.