New spiffy computer - won't connect.

My new computer arrived yesterday and today I hooked it all up. there's no connection to the internet so I click on the connection wizard. It keeps asking me for an ISP name and password.

I didn't know I had an ISP name and password. What's that? I gave it my email and email password, but no dice. If I have a name and password on my current old computer, it's transparent to me. It must have been set up five years ago when the computer was new.

There's a wizard for copying the connection from this (old) computer to the new one, but no counterpart on the new one.

Do I have to call my provider and stay on the hold all day to find out what I need to do? I have a 2300 dollar system that won't run anything but Vista currently - and darn it, I wanted to play.

how do you connect to the Internet? (cable, DSL, something else)? Are you using a router or a simpler interface? The whole password thing might be something you can skip altogether, with many home networks you only need to tell it that it's a LAN instead of an "internet connection" and then everything automagically works.

Hook your computer up to your network and run the network wizzard in Vista. You'll need to be logged in as adminstrator to do that. Vista will find your network as long as you have a connection from your computer to your router and/or modem. Vista is the easiest OS to make an internet connection with that I've run into. You actually do nothing...it does it all.

The password may be for your logging into your user account on your computer........don't put any password in the first time and you won't have to do that each time you log in. Put one in and you'll have to do it each time.........until you change it. Which requires you to be logged in as administrator.

Thanks. I'll try these things.