My old W95 box (the box I use to go on the net) started popping up the
dialup thing by itself after I installed but did not register some
software.  It pops up x minutes after booting the box, regardless of
whether I am already online via the regular dialup or via the compuserve
16-bit one (which I use to get my email).

> From: "Geo" 
> Been a while since I used dialup, but I think in either the dial properties
> or internet properties there was an automatically connect option that you
> can disable to prevent that.
> Geo.
> "Randall Parker"
 wrote
> in message news:41eb65dd$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>> Sometimes when at home and connected to the internet the WinXP internet
> dialer pops
>> up. How to discourage it from doing that?
>> 
>> I'd rather have the dialer pop up and dial ONLY when I command it to do
> so. I won't
>> want it trying to guess when I want to dial the internet. I don't want it
> to make a
>> mistake and not realize that the machine is not already on the internet.
>> 
>> Any ideas?

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