Internet connection

[Rekusu]

What ho one and all,

I am trying to activate a program called Forscan; it is used for connecting to the OBD port on cars. As a test, I have installed it to my desktop but that is not much use!! Instead, I have to download it again from the Forscan web site

I am trying to install on an old IBM Thinkpad T22 laptop running W2k. I need to download the software to this laptop and then go through the activation code game to receive a 2 month free license.

Installed is IE6, and with that I can pull up Google and search for anything. But from the displayed Google list, all links give a No Internet Connection message. Google images, all photos are displayed but again, the link shows the same message. I can find but not open Firefox portable as a more modern browser.

I am using a FTTC broadband router that does automatically connect with my W7 desktop but not to the W2k laptop.

Something is working as Google gives a result but cannot even open the BBC web site link. What can I do?

Thanks and toodle pip

[Midknyte]

The last Firefox version to support Win2k as FF12. You could give that a try, but it's still really old.
https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/...0/win32/en-US/

[Rekusu]

Thanks, appreciate your suggestion. However, that is not really the problem. The installed IE6 does fire up Google and I can search for anything, in this case Forscan. The next page lists all the links. But click a link and this sort of message is displayed. This is not a screenshot from the laptop, just a similar one I have found. The difference, is that it says unable to make a connection.


It's all going wrong!!!! Have taken a screenshot but cannot upload it. Nevertheless, unable to install another browser because the Google links are showing no internet connection!!!

[Midknyte]

Download the browser installer on another computer, and then copy it to a USB flash drive.

I'm guessing that the websites use SSL/TLS (security) that is higher than what IE6 supports.