That is very useful information, thanks.   :)

> From: "Robert Comer" 
> There's an option in Internet Connection settings that you can tell it to
> never dial.
> - Bob Comer
> "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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