O.T. Internet connection sharing

I wonder if anyone can shed some light on a problem I have . I've connected my computer which is running XP and is connected to the net via modem, to my sons computer using the internet sharing set-up that XP uses. My sons machine is on Win 98se, all works well apart from when he starts his machine when mine is already running his try's to access the net every time. I have narrowed the problem down using msconfig and found it to be a program called qmmgr or qm manager. If I take loadqm of the start menu in msconfig the fault goes away. Sorry for the long explanation but this program only seems to have been loaded at the same time I loaded the connection sharing. Does anyone know what it does ? and could I just leave it unchecked and forget about it. Regards Bob

qm manager being that well known utility from the latin quotas minimumus(qm) or low quota in English :) Morgan

Its part of one of the newer versions of MSN Messenger, it can be disabled. Or just don't have messenger try to load on startup. -- Biz "Don't touch that please, your primitive intellect wouldn't understand alloys and compositions and,......things with molecular structures,....and the....." - Ash R A Wright <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:aa0s4h$62j$[email hidden]... > I wonder if anyone can shed some light on a problem I have . > I've connected my computer which is running XP and is connected to the net > via modem, to my sons computer using the internet sharing set-up that XP > uses. > My sons machine is on Win 98se, all works well apart from when he starts his > machine when mine is already running his try's to access the net every time. > I have narrowed the problem down using msconfig and found it to be a program > called qmmgr or qm manager. > If I take loadqm of the start menu in msconfig the fault goes away. > Sorry for the long explanation but this program only seems to have been > loaded at the same time I loaded the connection sharing. > Does anyone know what it does ? and could I just leave it unchecked and > forget about it. > > Regards > > Bob > > > > > > > > >

Thanks for the info Bob "Biz" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:9nWw8.44393$[email hidden]... > Its part of one of the newer versions of MSN Messenger, it can bedisabled. Or just don't have

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> messenger try to load on startup. > -- > Biz > > "Don't touch that please, your primitive intellect wouldn't understand > alloys and compositions and,......things with molecular structures,....and > the....." - Ash > > > R A Wright <[email hidden]> wrote in message

news:aa0s4h$62j$[email hidden]... > > I wonder if anyone can shed some light on a problem I have . > > I've connected my computer which is running XP and is connected to thenet > > via modem, to my sons computer using the internet sharing set-up that XP > > uses. > > My sons machine is on Win 98se, all works well apart from when he startshis > > machine when mine is already running his try's to access the net everytime. > > I have narrowed the problem down using msconfig and found it to be aprogram

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> > called qmmgr or qm manager. > > If I take loadqm of the start menu in msconfig the fault goes away. > > Sorry for the long explanation but this program only seems to have been > > loaded at the same time I loaded the connection sharing. > > Does anyone know what it does ? and could I just leave it unchecked and > > forget about it. > > > > Regards > > > > Bob > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >