How to change Access Numbers

How to change your Dial Up Access Number 

 

  Step 1. Have all your programs closed down and be at the desktop (the place where your computer is at when it starts up and all the little picture icons are located. 

 

  Step 2. Left click on the "Start" button located in the left corner of your screen, when you do a box will open upwards with a list of different things, now depending on how you have your system set up and which version of Windows you are running the popped open box will look different from person to person, but you can still basically find all of the same things here, they may just be located a little differently from one to the next. 

 

 Step 3. Locate the words "Control Panel". Now for many of you it will be written and located directly in the box that opened up, for some, you may have to put your "arrow" or mouse on the word settings and have a little box pop open to the right to see the words "Control Panel". 

 

 Step 4. Once you have located Control Panel, put your mouse on it and left click on it, this will open the Control Panel. Now, basically there are two different ways that the control panel will look. For some you will have what is know as the "Category View" and you will have several different categories to choose from, for others there is the "Icon View" which you will see several little icon pictures with writing under them describing what the icon picture is. 

 

 Step 5. Now what we want to do is find "Internet Options", for those of you with the icon view you should see a little icon picture picture with the words "Internet Options" written under it. On my machine I am using I have Icon View and my little picture for Internet Options looks like a globe or planet earth with a little square piece of paper in front of it with three check marks on it. For those of you with "Category View" you will see a category that is named "Network and Internet". You will need to click on this category and inside of that window you will find "Internet Options". 

 

 Step 6. Now regardless of how your control panel looks, by now you should be looking at "Internet Options". Put your "arrow" or mouse on Internet Options and left click on it to open it up. Those of you with the Icon view will probably need to double left click on it to open it up, or right click on it. This will open up a little box with a few choices. One of the choices will be "open". You will left click on "open". Now that we have the Internet Options open (in the upper left hand corner of this box you opened it may say Internet Properties, this is fine you are right where you need to be. You will notice the first page that you are on when it opens is the "General" tab and you will see your "homepage" written there. Now look across the top of the Internet Options box and you will see several tabs. One of the tabs is named "Connections". You now need to put your "arrow" or mouse on top of the Connections tab and left click, this will open that tab up. 

 

Step 7. Now that we have the connections tab open, you should see your connection listed, and should have (default) beside it. Left click on this connection and highlight it, then go over to the right and left click on the button that says "Setting". This will open up a new box, and at the bottom you will see your username and password, or a bunch of dots in the password box. This is just Windows way of hiding the password. Directly to the right of the username box you will see a button that says "Properties". Left click on the "Properties" button. 

 

Step 8. Now a new box will open, and right in the center of that new box you will see the phone number that you have been using to dial up for internet access. Put your arrow, or mouse in the box at the end of the number(on the right end) and left click one time, that will put the curser, or blinking line, in the box and you can type in it. The first thing you do after you have the blinking line in this box at the end of the number is to press the "BACKSPACE" key on your keyboard. This will backspace the number off, or erase it. Then you can type in one of the other access numbers that you found for your city using my Local Access Number page. For example: If you live in Monticello, Arkansas and you have been using the number 2244013, you could backspace the 4013 number off there and replace it with one of the other two Monticello, Ar number 4014 or 4025 changing your access number from 2244013 to 2244014 or 2244025. 

 

Step 9. Now that you have typed in a new number, you need to left click the OK button at the bottom. This will take you back to the page where you can see your username and password at the bottom--here you need to left click "OK" again. That will take you back to the "Connections" tab of the Internet Options box, where you can see your connection listed. Here you need to left click the "APPLY" button in the bottom right hand corner of this box (if it is lit up) and then left click the "OK" button. YOu have now successfully changed your local dial up number, and you are probably back looking at the control panel. You can close the control panel by left clicking on the little x in the top right hand corner of the screen, and this should take you back to the desktop, or home screen. Now you can try to get connected using your new access number. If you still have problems, and you have more access numbers for your area, then repeat these steps and try putting in the next number in line. If you go through ALL the access numbers that are listed for your area, and you still can't get connected. If you are still recieving an error code, number, or error message such as "invalid username or password", then you need write down whatever the error code says, number, or message and contact me so I can help figure out what is going on with your connection. Thank you all for taking time to read my instructions for changing your access number.It is good to learn to do these kind of things with your computer, because I am not always immediately on hand to help you, and if you can use these instructions I have put up for you, you probably can get yourself back online without my help, and without a wait for a callback or response to an email.