*) Click 'Start', followed by 'Programs', followed by 'Internet',
   followed by 'Connect With', followed by your preferred
   ISP (e.g. 'Wanadoo').

*) At the 'Connect To' window, just click 'Connect'.

*) The connection can take about 90 seconds to establish, after
   which the 'Connect To' window will be minimised to the
   'System Tray' (that's the collection of mini-icons at
   the bottom-right of the screen).

*) Then you're free to:

   - start up a web browser (if you want
     to surf the web, visit your webmail services to check
     your Email, visit Google to search for stuff, etc), or

   - follow the instructions in the 'How to Upload 
     Your Home Page' (if you want to upload recently made
     changes to your homepage), or

   - start Speakfreely (if you want to talk to people using
     your PC as a telephone), or 

   - let Alexis log in to your computer from a remote 
     location (if you want him to take a look at something
     on your PC that you can't email to him), or 

   - a thousand other things (using a web browser is just
     ONE of MANY things you can do when you're connected
     to the Internet!)

*) When you've done whatever it was you wanted to do, and 
   the connection is no longer needed, then right-click on
   the connection icon in the system tray and select
   'Disconnect'.