switching between dialup and direct connection (XP)

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Michal Szymanski

Hi,

I have a laptop running Windows XP (Home Edition). It has integrated
both an ethernet adapter and a modem. When at office, I use the direct
connection (through a switch to the office LAN, with a DHCP server
running on one machine in the LAN). Sometimes, however, I use the laptop
at places w/o direct connection to the internet, using the modem.

The problem shows up when going back to the direct connection (ethernet
card). The system recognizes the LAN correctly, so I can e.g. log to
a unix machine using SSH client, but the Internet Explorer insists that
there is no network available and offers the window to choose dialup
connection.

I was unable to find a simple way to switch IE to use direct connection.
The only workaround was to define a local connection from the scratch
but this seems to me very stupid way.

I do not use much MS-Windows so I am probably missing something obvious
(hopefully :). Any hints would be appreciated,

regards, Michal.
 
Open IE, tools/internet options/connections and check off "never dial a
connection"
That should do it
 
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