Supporting Broadband Configuration during Windows Me oobe

Introduction

This article describes the driver and preconfiguration compo­nents for broadband support that will help ensure new users have a good out-of-box-experience (OOBE), including easy connection to the Internet when first running Windows.

The information in this article applies only for Windows Me, and includes these elements:

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  Brief background about the Windows OOBE process and broadband configuration
  
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  Guidelines for device drivers, to ensure they correctly support easy configuration of broadband connections
  
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  Windows Me extensions to the Internet settings (INS) file format, which are used to define parameters for configuring Internet-related services
  

For information about installing and configuring support for broadband devices under Windows 2000, see the Windows 2000 DDK.