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Copyright © 1997, PY Software, Inc. All rights reserved. http://www.kagi.com/yellow/default.html	Welcome to the most popular Windows95/NT software for access to Internet. The program helps you to get a connection to Internet easier and make Internet access a more simple process. Advanced Dialer re-dials multiple lines until a connection will be established. After that it monitors carrier, if a connection is dropped or lost it reconnects automatically. Advanced Dialer keeps track of how much time and money you have spent on each of your connections and can create a chart for each connection. For each connection you can create a Dial-Up Networking script to automate the process of connecting to an Internet service provider. Main module of Advanced Dialer has very small size only 100 Kbytes and takes little amount of memory. It can be accessed from within taskbar tray. It is allowing you to connect from one click of a pop up menu. You can schedule Internet connections by setting up date and time when connection must be established. To prevent any undesirable use of your Internet connectivity you can choose the password protection of using the program. With Advanced Dialer you can run applications on connection or disconnection. For instance it allows you to run Microsoft Exchange or a Web browser when network connection is established.


Dialing with AdvancedDialer.

Connection usage

Creating Dial-Up networking script

Scheduling Internet connections

Performing actions on connection or disconnection

Password protection

Copying IP address to clipboard

Auto dialing when a connection is required

Ping ISP server


System Requirements

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Copyright © 1997, PY Software, Inc. All rights reserved. http://www.kagi.com/yellow/default.html	To run, Advanced Dialer needs the following prerequisites: · 80386/486 based IBM PC compatible computer (or higher); · 4MB of free memory; · 2MB free disk space; · Microsoft Windows 95, or Windows NT 4.0; · A mouse; · A color monitor with a VGA card is recommended. · Microsoft TCP/IP Protocol stacks. Other stacks are not supported. · Microsoft Dial-Up networking.


Dialing with Advanced Dialer.

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Copyright © 1997, PY Software, Inc. All rights reserved. http://www.kagi.com/yellow/default.html	When Advanced Dialer is started it displays the icon in the sys tool tray at the bottom right of your screen. Right-clicking the icon with your mouse will display a popup menu, which you can use to operate with Advanced Dialer. You can dial, hang-up and display a Parameters screen from the popup menu. Also for bringing up Parameters screen you can simply double click the icon with the left mouse button.  For performing dialing, you need to select one or more connections for dialing. Choose desired connection and click button Select. For unselecting the connection click button Select again. After that click button Dial. Advanced Dialer can immediately re-dial a connection after unexpected disconnection. If button Keep is pressed, Advanced Dialer will reconnect each time when carrier is lost.  You can specify the redial interval, which allows you to set the number of seconds to wait before attempting to dial again after an unsuccessful attempt. This timeout gives dial-up networking and the modem time to reset. If modem does not answer during Max. wait time interval, the dial will be attempted again. Increase this interval if connection process takes a long time. Windows NT If you want to monitor modem status during connection, you can add Dial-Up Networking Monitor application in the performing action list. Advanced Dialer will run this application after connection. (RASMON.EXE file is located in WINNT\SYSTEM32 directory)


Connection usage.

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Copyright © 1997, PY Software, Inc. All rights reserved. http://www.kagi.com/yellow/default.html	Advanced Dialer tracks usage for each connection and can count amount of money, which you spend when online. To view and setup the Connection Rates Click button Info and choice tab Connection Rates.  Type Minimum Fee Rate, if your ISP gets a minimum fee per month. Advanced Dialer will add this amount to the monthly cost and subtract the Free Hours. Set Day Rate and Night Rate, if your ISP charges different fees for daytime and nighttime connections. Enter when daytime and nighttime periods are started and ended. At another time and on weekends the rate for weekends and other time will be used. If you do not set day or night time rates, the rate for weekends and other time will be used. Advanced Dialer keeps log about each of your connections and it can create chart for each connection. Log file is simple text file and you can open it in another word processor or by a default viewer. To view connection charts Click button Graphs from the Advanced Dialer main screen Click button Time to create chart of connection time per day. Click button Connection time of each phone number to create chart of total connection time by phones. Click button Time per each connection to create chart of time of connections.


Creating Dial-Up networking script.

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Copyright © 1997, PY Software, Inc. All rights reserved. http://www.kagi.com/yellow/default.html	You need to use script only if your Internet service provider require you to manually enter information, such as type of protocol or your user name to establish a connection. Dial-up networking script is available in Windows 95 only. In Windows NT use own scripting tool. You can create a dial-up networking script that automatically provides user name and password information, so that you do not have to type it in each time you connect. Advanced Dialer performs a script by watching a terminal screen and sending commands to it as if you are typing it by self. When a phone number will be dialed and terminal window will be brought up, Advanced Dialer will wait for a string or a substring in the terminal window and after the timeout will be reached, will transmit a command to the terminal window. To setup a script Click button Info, choice tab Connection Properties and click button Script file. Click check box Use Script When Connecting and add new script line or edit an existing lines. To allow Advanced Dialer to perform script, you need to set to display a terminal window after dialing: 1. Click button Edit Connection... 2. In the Properties dialog box, click the Configure button, and then click the Options tab. 3. In the Options dialog box, click the option named “Bring Up Terminal Window After Dialing” so it is checked, and then click OK. Be sure terminal window on your machine has title same as specified in Title of the Terminal window edit line. If it is not, Advanced Dialer can not find the terminal window.  Click Add button to add new script line.  Click Edit button to customize current script line.  Click Delete button to delete current script line. You can specify up to 65000 script lines. If you customize a script line the Script line dialog box appears. Script line Wait for box In the script line, which you're adding or modifying, you need to specify Wait for string. The text you enter in a Wait for box should correspond to a string of text that appears in the terminal screen indicating that a response is required. For instance if terminal screen output "Login:" text, entered in the Wait for box, can be: Login, ogin, Log. Script line Transmit box You can specify a string of text with special characters that Advanced Dialer will send to the terminal window in response to finding a previously defined Wait for string. Any plain text such as bill or login will be sent exactly as it is typed in the send box. If you want to send a some special character you need to enclose it in within special { } brackets. There are names of specially defined characters: {Username} Sends the username you have defined in Advanced Dialer {Password} Sends the password you have defined in Advanced Dialer {ENTER} Sends a carriage return {F1} Sends an F1 keystroke {F2} Sends an F2 keystroke {F3} Sends an F3 keystroke {F4} Sends an F4 keystroke {F5} Sends an F5 keystroke {F6} Sends an F6 keystroke {F7} Sends an F7 keystroke {F8} Sends an F8 keystroke {F9} Sends an F9 keystroke {F10} Sends an F10 keystroke {F11} Sends an F11 keystroke {F12} Sends an F12 keystroke {INSERT} Sends an insert keystroke {DELETE} Sends a delete keystroke {HOME} Sends a home keystroke {END} Sends an end keystroke {PGUP} Sends a pageup keystroke {PGDN} Sends a pagedown keystroke {TAB} Sends a tab keystroke {BKSP} Sends a backspace keystroke {PRTSC} Sends an printscreen keystroke {SHIFT} Sends a shift keystroke {ESCAPE} Sends an escape keystroke You can select a desired special symbol from drop-down list by clicking drop-down button. Script line Timeout box Timeout in seconds, until this timeout is reached Advanced Dialer will send Transmit command to the terminal window. Example: Terminal screen shows a string: User login: You need to set Wait for box: login: and Transmit box: {USERNAME}{ENTER}  After that the terminal screen shows a string: Password: You need to set Wait for box: Password: and Transmit box: {PASSWORD}{ENTER} On establishing a PPP session the terminal screen shows a string: PPP session from (194.67.8.153) to 194.67.14.67 beginning....~?}#?!}!}!} }8}!}$}"@}" You need to set Wait for box: PPP or } and Transmit box: {F7}


Scheduling Internet connections.

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Copyright © 1997, PY Software, Inc. All rights reserved. http://www.kagi.com/yellow/default.html	Advanced Dialer will connect at time, which you define. It can try to connect during specified period and can disconnect after some minutes. To schedule a new connection Click button Options and choice tab Scheduling.   Click Add button to add new schedule line.  Click Edit button to customize current schedule line.  Click Delete button to delete current schedule line. You can specify up to 65000 schedule lines. In Changing Schedule dialog box set schedule properties. In the Connect and Connect at boxes, select when you want the connection to be established. If you want to Advanced Dialer will disconnect after some minutes, specify it in Disconnect after edit box. For allowing disconnection after some minutes the option Keep Connection (auto reconnect) must be disabled. Advanced Dialer will try to connect during Try to connect period. Make sure that the system date and time for your computer are accurate. Advanced Dialer uses this information to start a scheduled connection. You can use the Date/Time option in Control Panel to update your computer's date and time.


Running programs.
Performing actions on connection or disconnection.

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Copyright © 1997, PY Software, Inc. All rights reserved. http://www.kagi.com/yellow/default.html	Application or a document can be opened on connection and closed when disconnected. If passed the name of a document, associated application will be started with opening the document. Also Advanced Dialer can search specified window and can close it or press a button within this window. To specify an action Click button Options and choice tab Actions.  Click Add button to add new action.  Click Edit button to customize current action.  Click Delete button to delete current action. You can specify up to 65000 actions. In Action Properties dialog box set properties for action performing. Choose Run an Application or Press a button or close a window Run an Application Enter a name of program or name of a document in File Name edit box. Also you can choose a URL from bookmarks or type it. Document will be opened by associated application. If the program uses files in another folder, type the name of the folder in the Default Directory box. Type parameters to be passed to the application in Command Line edit box. Parameters must be separated from each other by the blank symbol. Choose when the application will be started and (if it necessary) closed.  Use the close option carefully because some applications can leave own components in the memory and that will decrease system resources. In the Window Size box, select how you want the program to be displayed. Enter an action for the application to perform in Verb Action edit box. For an executable the default value is "Open". For multimedia files this value can be "Play". Press a button or close a window Enter Window Title, which Advanced Dialer will search. You can enter only part of window title. For example title "Reestablish Connection" can be found as "Reesta" or "Connection". If you want to press a button in the window, enter its caption in Button to Press edit box. Advanced Dialer will search a button’s caption with this substring. For example title "Cancel" can be found as "Can" or "anc". In the Action performing box, select when you want the action to be performed. Example: You can see that after connection, Advanced Dialer will start Internet Mail program, press button for resuming transfer in GetRight™ program, play a WAV file and open a WEB site. If the window with pushed button is overlapped, in some cases you need to specify two identical commands for pressing the button. First command activates the button and second command will press it. If you specify an application, which allows you to set the connection method to the internet and lets you choose between using a dial-up networking connection or using a LAN connection to the internet, choose the LAN connection method for preventing dialing from the application.


Password protection.

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Copyright © 1997, PY Software, Inc. All rights reserved. http://www.kagi.com/yellow/default.html	The password protection avoids any misuse of your Internet connectivity. The next time you launch program you will be prompted for your password before you can connect to Internet. To password protect your connections Click button Options and select tab General.  Click the Password Protect check-box and click the Change password button. Enter new password twice and click Ok for saving your password in encrypted format. Keep in mind, the password is case sensitive. "ROBERT" is not the same "robert". To remove a password from Advanced Dialer Click button Options and select tab General.  Clear the Password Protect check-box.


Copying IP address to clipboard.

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Copyright © 1997, PY Software, Inc. All rights reserved. http://www.kagi.com/yellow/default.html	IP address of your computer will be copied to Clipboard after connection. This allows you to paste your IP address into another application. To copy IP address to clipboard after connecting Click button Options and select tab General.  Select the Copy IP address to clipboard check box.


Auto dialing when a connection is required.

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Copyright © 1997, PY Software, Inc. All rights reserved. http://www.kagi.com/yellow/default.html	If any application requires a connection, Advanced Dialer will be loaded automatically and will dial the selected connection. If Advanced Dialer is already loaded, it will start to dial. This feature allows you to not worry about making an internet connection before starting your WWW browser because after the browser will be started Advanced Dialer will dial automatically. If your email application connects periodically for checking new messages, Advanced Dialer, with tracking connection usage, will perform each connection. Also choose the LAN connection method for preventing dialing from the application. To connect whenever an application requires an Internet connection Click button Options and select tab General.  Select the Connect whenever an application requires an Internet connection check box. This option may not work on some configurations of Windows NT 4.0.


Ping ISP server.

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Copyright © 1997, PY Software, Inc. All rights reserved. http://www.kagi.com/yellow/default.html	If your ISP disconnects you if you are idle some minutes, you can set option Ping ISP server for preventing the disconnection. Advanced Dialer will send some signals for emulation of your activity. To Ping ISP server Click button Options and select tab General.  Select the Ping ISP server check box. Set the interval in minutes between pings in the Interval edit box.


System Requirements

The Advanced Dialer main window

Customizing a connection

Creating a new connection

Customizing Advanced Dialer

Close Advanced Dialer

Command-line options


How to register ?

How to contact us?

Registration Name and Registration key


The program not execute

Error messages


Main window
The Advanced Dialer main window

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Copyright © 1997, PY Software, Inc. All rights reserved. http://www.kagi.com/yellow/default.html	When Advanced Dialer is started it displays the icon in the sys tool tray at the bottom right of your screen. Right-clicking the icon with your mouse will display a popup menu, which you can use to operate with Advanced Dialer. You can display the Advanced Dialer main window from the popup menu or simply double click the icon with the left mouse button.


This button closes the dialog box without performing the action.


This button performs the action.


This button closes the dialog box with saving all changed data.


Button Help open a help window.


Header of the table.

To resize a column,

•	Place the cursor between the two panes until the cursor changes to a double-headed arrow.

•	Drag the separator to the left or to the right.


Customize a connection
Customizing a connection.

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Copyright © 1997, PY Software, Inc. All rights reserved. http://www.kagi.com/yellow/default.html	The Connection Properties and Rates dialog box allows you to customize connection parameters such as User Name, Password, Dial-Up script and phone numbers. Also you can define connection rates. To customizing a connection Select a connection and click Info button from the Advanced Dialer main screen and select tab Connection Properties. Enter user name in the User Name edit box. Enter password in the Password edit box. If you do not enter a password, then every time when you're using this connection you will be prompted to enter your password. Specifies the Domain string containing the domain on which authentication is to occur. An empty string specifies the domain in which the remote access server is a member. An asterisk specifies the domain stored in the phone book for the entry. Define a script if necessary by clicking Dial-Up Script button. Button Edit Connection displays Windows dial-up networking dialog box. It allows you to set modem and server options. If your ISP has multiple phone numbers, add them in the Phone Numbers list by clicking button Add. If you'll leave list of phones empty, the default phone number will be used. Don't forget select the Pulse Dialing check-box, if you have pulse dialing.


Creating new connection
Creating a new connection.

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Copyright © 1997, PY Software, Inc. All rights reserved. http://www.kagi.com/yellow/default.html	A dial-up connection contains a unique set of information that relates to a particular Internet Service Provider. To creating new connection Click New button from the Advanced Dialer main screen. Follow the instructions on the screen.


Options button allows you to set following properties:

Scheduling Internet connections

Performing actions on connection or disconnection

Password protection

Copying IP address to clipboard

Auto dialing when a connection is required

Ping ISP server


Customizing Advanced Dialer
Customizing Advanced Dialer.

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Copyright © 1997, PY Software, Inc. All rights reserved. http://www.kagi.com/yellow/default.html	Advanced Dialer is customizable, so you can make it work the way you like. To customize Advanced Dialer Click button Options from the Advanced Dialer main screen. Options dialog box allows you to set following properties: Hide "Reestablish Connection" dialog box Connect on Startup Copying IP address to clipboard Run on Windows startup Password protection Auto dialing when a connection is required Ping ISP server Changing font of Advanced Dialer according your desire Performing actions on connection or disconnection Scheduling Internet connections


"Reestablish Connection" dialog box appears when connection is lost. Program will hide this box and will try to reconnect.

This option is enabled in Windows 95 only.


If button "Keep connection" is pressed and "Connect on Startup" check box is checked, program will dial on startup.


Shortcut to program will be created in Windows startup menu. After that program will be started on every Windows start.


If there are wrong displayed symbols in the program, you can change font according your desire.


Text format.

The columns of table are separated with "Tab" code (digital code - 9).

For instance this text can be opened in the Microsoft Word or in the Microsoft Excel.


Close Advanced Dialer

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Copyright © 1997, PY Software, Inc. All rights reserved. http://www.kagi.com/yellow/default.html	Click the right mouse button on the icon in the sys tool tray and choose command Exit.


Command-line options

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Copyright © 1997, PY Software, Inc. All rights reserved. http://www.kagi.com/yellow/default.html	Advanced Dialer allows you to perform some commands from the command line, or as program arguments from a shortcut. Dialing from command line For dial from the command line the option takes the following form:  /D or /D Connection Name where “Connection Name” is the name of one of your dial-up networking connection. For example, say you have a Dial-Up Networking connection named My ISP. To make Advanced Dialer dial My ISP, you should simply type ADIALER.EXE /D My ISP Hang Up from command line For Hang Up from the command line the option takes the following form:  /H For example, type and run following command for closing current connection ADIALER.EXE /H


Registration

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Copyright © 1997, PY Software, Inc. All rights reserved. http://www.kagi.com/yellow/default.html	Advanced Dialer is distributed as Shareware. This is not Freeware or Public Domain. You may use the shareware version for 30 days. If after 30 days you would like to continue using it, then you should purchase a license. License fee $29 How to register: You can register using the Kagi Shareware service. They accept Checks or Money Order, VISA, Master Card, American Express and First Virtual. Email, fax or postal registration You need to create a email message or print a order form using the registration application Startup the registration application by clicking button Reg.Info from the Advanced Dialer main screen, select the Run REGISTER.EXE program command and follow the instructions step by step. You can startup the registration application directly from Windows by starting up the file REGISTER.EXE. Send the registration form at:  Email: shareware@kagi.com FAX: +1 510 652 6589 Postal address:  Kagi Shareware  1442-A Walnut Street #392-PZ  Berkeley, California, 94709-1405  USA Telephone Orders Kagi takes telephone orders 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Kagi phone number is:  +1 (510) 658-5244 The system provides answers to common questions and if you wish to place an order it will transfer your telephone call to an answering service. Online registration via Internet You can register via Kagi Online Registration system at: http://order.kagi.com/?PZ or via Share It! Online Registration system at: http://www.shareit.com/categories/win95_comm_utilities.htm After you pay, you receive Registration Name and Registration key from the author, which you need to put to Advanced Dialer. The time delay between your payment and receiving the registration key is delay in getting to Kagi + delay in processing. For different kinds of communications it takes: Email: max 7 days, Fax: max 9 days, Postal Mail: Weeks. Please send any comments about the program directly to PY Software Inc.


Registration key

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Copyright © 1997, PY Software, Inc. All rights reserved. http://www.kagi.com/yellow/default.html	After you pay for license and receive registration key, you need to put it to Advanced Dialer. When you select the Registration Key command by clicking button Reg.Info from the Advanced Dialer main screen, the dialog box shown below appears. • In the edit box Your Name type name which you received from the author. • In the edit box Registration key type registration code which you received from the author. • Click Ok.


Name which you received from the author.


Registration code which you received from the author.


Registration application

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Registration application from Kagi Shareware service.

Here is what it does:

1.  Displays a dialog with a scrolling list of programs. The user can mark his selections, buying a number of single user licenses, a site license or a worldwide license for these programs.

2.  The user is also prompted to enter his name, email and/or postal addresses, request a printed receipt, select a payment method etc.

3.  A number of payment methods are supported including credit cards, check or money order, invoice, First Virtual or cash in variety of exchangeable currencies.

4.  Once all the software selections and other information are entered, the information is validated (e.g.  correct format and checksum of credit card numbers are checked, expiration date is checked, etc.). Then the user can print/fax or email the information to a company that will process it and after deducting a small fee will pay the money to the author. All the sensitive information like credit card numbers and expiration dates is scrambled before emailing/faxing/sending with an algorithm customized for every payment processing service individually.

5.  If the payment information generated by REGISTER program is emailed, it is formatted in a very clear way, easy to process automatically. If it is printed or faxed, in addition to text output, all the information is printed as bar codes (3-of-9 code) for easy entry and processing.

Register for Windows program was written by Grzegorz (Greg) Kochaniak according to specification provided by Kee Nethery of KAGI SHAREWARE. To contact Greg, send email to gregko@kagi.com or check his WWW home page at http://www.kagi.com/authors/gregko/


Shareware is a distribution method, not a type of software. Shareware is produced by accomplished programmers, just like retail software. There is good and bad shareware, just as there is good and bad retail software. The primary difference between shareware and retail software is that with shareware you know if it's good or bad before you pay for it.

As a software user, you benefit because you get to use the software to determine whether it meets your needs before you pay for it, and authors benefit because they are able to get their products into your hands without the hundreds of thousands of dollars in expenses it takes to launch a traditional retail software product. There are many programs on the market today which would never have become available without the shareware marketing method.

The shareware system and the continued availability of quality shareware products depend on your willingness to register and pay for the shareware you use.  It's the registration fees you pay which allow us to support and continue to develop our products.

Please show your support for shareware by registering this program you actually use.

Shareware is kept alive by YOUR support!


Kagi Shareware is a shareware payment processing service that makes it easy for people to pay shareware fees and saves shareware authors from handling payment processing.

For more information go to <http://www.kagi.com/> on the WEB, or send email to <shareware@kagi.com>.


How to contact us?

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Copyright © 1997, PY Software, Inc. All rights reserved. http://www.kagi.com/yellow/default.html	PY Software, Inc. Email:  Yellow@kagi.com WWW: http://www.kagi.com/yellow/default.html If you have any question about this or any of our products, please contact us. Advanced Dialer is a trademark of PY Software, Inc. Copyright © 1997, PY Software, Inc. All rights reserved. Third-Party Trademarks Windows is a registered trademark of Microsoft Corporation. Windows 95 is a trademark of Microsoft Corporation. Windows NT is a trademark of Microsoft Corporation. Other products are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies.


The program not execute

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Copyright © 1997, PY Software, Inc. All rights reserved. http://www.kagi.com/yellow/default.html	There are many reasons, in result of which, the program cannot be started. Main of the reasons are shown below: One of executable files is erased or broken. Solution Check up the availability all necessary components in Advanced Dialer directory and, if it is necessary, reinstall Advanced Dialer. You can download the last version of the program at: http://www.kagi.com/yellow/default.html Your machine does not have necessary system requirements. Solution Check up System Requirements.


Error messages

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Copyright © 1997, PY Software, Inc. All rights reserved. http://www.kagi.com/yellow/default.html	Error message An ERROR occurred during reading file Cannot execute XXXXX program. Name or Registration Key is not correct. The default Internet explorer could not be found. Unable to load functions from RASAPI32.DLL Probably the library is missing or corrupted or Microsoft Dial-Up networking not installed. Unable to find RASAPI32.DLL Probably Microsoft Dial-Up networking not installed.	Solution Probably the file is corrupted or has another format Check the program on specified destination. Check up the availability all necessary components in Advanced Dialer directory and, if it is necessary, reinstall Advanced Dialer. Check Name or Registration Key and try again. Advanced Dialer has not found any Internet browser. Probably you are running Advanced Dialer from Windows NT with not installed RAS service. Open Network box from control panel and add Remote Access Service in Services list.


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