Dial Up Connection window

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Captain Jim

I've had Broadband for quite a while. All of a sudden a window saying
"Dial Up Connection" keeps popping up. I've checked the box that says
"Never Dial A Connection" but it still keeps happening periodically.
I've run Ad-Aware, Spybot & Spysweeper as well as my Norton AV.
Any ideas?
 
If Outlook express is running and set to send / receive every so many
minutes that will be the likely cause.

Go tools>accounts and click on both news and mail tabs in the window that
appears (Especially mail)

On the right next to each account name you should see any available listed
under "Connections"

I bet under there for at least one of them is an old dial up ISP name.

Double click on any account names like that and when their properties
windows appear hit the "Connection" tab and uncheck the box for "Always
connect using".

All being well the problem will go away.

If not this it could be something like Antivirus searching for updates etc.

Like OE they have no way of knowing how you are connected so if in the past
a direct connection through a dial up ISP was specified they would have to
disconnect and redial to get the right network. The reason OE is specific
like this is because most ISP will only permit using their mail servers for
sending if you are on their network, so if you had two dial up accounts your
mail accounts would show errors if you tried to use A's email account while
connected to B.

Charlie
 
Charlie said:
If Outlook express is running and set to send / receive every so many
minutes that will be the likely cause.
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Thanks Charlie,
I use Outlook not Outlook Express so I don't think OE is the problem.
Since I used OE before I will go in & check the things you said (even
though OE is not open on my computer)
 
Captain Jim said:
I've had Broadband for quite a while. All of a sudden a window saying
"Dial Up Connection" keeps popping up. I've checked the box that says
"Never Dial A Connection" but it still keeps happening periodically.
I've run Ad-Aware, Spybot & Spysweeper as well as my Norton AV.
Any ideas?
Click to expand...


Use Task Manager or SysInternals' Process Explorer
to find out which task is doing it? E.g. from TM's Applications tab
you could right-click and choose Go to Process.


Good luck

Robert Aldwinckle
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Make sure you have the same values
in your registry as below......

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\OLE]
"EnableDCOM"="Y"
"EnableRemoteConnect"="N"

If no joy, see these articles for possible help:
Modem Attempts to Dial When Windows Starts
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;q175312 (Win9x)
Modem Automatically Attempts to Establish a Dial-Up Connection When You
Start Your Computer or Start a Program
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;316530 (WinXP)
 
Jon said:
Make sure you have the same values
in your registry as below......

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\OLE]
"EnableDCOM"="Y"
"EnableRemoteConnect"="N"
Click to expand...
Don't know enough about computers to mess with the registry but thanks
anyway
 
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