From: Ellen K. 

No, it never did it until I installed that software, I'm sure it's trying
to automatically register it.

I might replace the box with an emachine or something (I like having my
serious machine not on the net, although it's inconvenient at times) but
I'm not gonna upgrade it to 98, that would probably kill it.

On 20 Jan 2005 04:35:12 GMT,
"Mark.Lewis" wrote in message
:

> EK> My old W95 box (the box I use to go on the net) started
> EK> popping up the dialup thing by itself after I installed but
> EK> did not register some software.  It pops up x minutes after
> EK> booting the box, regardless of whether I am already online via
> EK> the regular dialup or via the compuserve 16-bit one (which I
> EK> use to get my email).
>
>that's a well known problem with w95 boxen and some software that is/was too
>stupid to look and see if it was already connected... upgrading to at least
>w98se should take care of that but, as always, YMMV...
>
>)\/(ark
>

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