I have a labtop at home with built in ethernet card and i recently hooked up a Diamond 56K modem the modem works fine and i can dail an outside line fine. the problem is that while installing IE5.5 (this seemed to be ok) when i went to open IE5.5 it crashed and gave a silly message, when i checked the control panel the Internet Options is missing and when i click on another source of internet setting is brings up the silly message again, it reads something like

cannot open connection settings please add dialup and tcp/ip settings manually.

I have done a checkdisk and it did find errors in inetcpl.dll and it fixed it but it didn`t work, i don`t want to format the drive as i don`t have the drivers for the cd rom, sound card or the ethernetcard also i don`t have a copy of windows nt

Has any one got any suggestions on how to continue?? that would sort out my Windows NT, everything else is ok, but the internet options which dont seem to be there??

Thanks any help will be handy