# Work offline always comes up

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/work-offline-always-comes-up/336917>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [December 23, 2005, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/work-offline-always-comes-up/336917 "2005-12-23T02:24:23Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![dauerbach](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c2a13f/32.png) [@dauerbach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dauerbach)\
**Post date:** [December 23, 2005, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/work-offline-always-comes-up/336917/1 "2005-12-23T02:24:23Z")

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In my previous message, I couldn’t connect to the internet. It turned out to be a button on the computer, and I got online once. Then I purposely restarted the computer, and now it will not find any websites, I keep getting the message about working offline, and when I click connect it doesn’t. What do I do now?

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**Author:** ![Q.E.D](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/51bf81/32.png) [@Q.E.D](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.E.D)\
**Post date:** [December 23, 2005, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/work-offline-always-comes-up/336917/2 "2005-12-23T02:29:03Z")

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You using IE? Go to the File menu and make sure Work Offline is unchecked–if it isn’t, click it so that it is. You may need to close IE and restart it afterwards.

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**Author:** ![dauerbach](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c2a13f/32.png) [@dauerbach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dauerbach)\
**Post date:** [December 23, 2005, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/work-offline-always-comes-up/336917/3 "2005-12-23T02:35:58Z")

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Yes, I am using IE, mainly because I have not been able to get online to get firefox. I will make sure it is not checked, restart, and let you know what happens.

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**Author:** ![dauerbach](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c2a13f/32.png) [@dauerbach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dauerbach)\
**Post date:** [December 23, 2005, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/work-offline-always-comes-up/336917/4 "2005-12-23T02:49:10Z")

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Thanks QED. That did it. I am up and running.