Vista Home Premium, SP1. I created a dial-up connection for my ISP, to be used if 
the dsl line is not working. The dial-up works, perhaps too well: While I'm on-line 
using dsl, from time to time the dial-up box pops up. 

I can discern no pattern to this, nor have I been able, so far, to find any documents 
that might explain how to stop the untoward behavior.

Assistance would, rather obviously (or ought I say "obliviously"?), be appreciated.

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I have the same problem. You are not alone. Somebody please help.

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Have you verified in your IE that under tools, connection "dial when a network cconnection is not present" is checked off? I know that when not using dialup the prefered selection is "never dial a connection" I know the second option should make you ok.


On Thursday, April 10, 2008 at 11:46 am, John Liebson wrote:
>Vista Home Premium, SP1. I created a dial-up connection for my ISP, to be used if
>the dsl line is not working. The dial-up works, perhaps too well: While I'm on-line
>using dsl, from time to time the dial-up box pops up.
>
>I can discern no pattern to this, nor have I been able, so far, to find any documents
>that might explain how to stop the untoward behavior.
>
>Assistance would, rather obviously (or ought I say "obliviously"?), be appreciated.

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Thanks for responding.

I rarely use IE; however, to see if this helps, I just changed to "never dial" from 
"dial when a network connection is not present". 

Hmm, I just remembered that there is also a setting in Control Panel/Internet connections. 
Perhaps that needs to be changed, so I shall also have to experiment with that. (Five 
years with Windows XP, now perhaps six weeks with Vista, and only a day or two with 
a dial-up connection set up in Vista.)








On Thursday, April 10, 2008 at 9:25 pm, jla781 wrote:

>Have you verified in your IE that under tools, connection "dial when a network cconnection 

>is not present" is checked off?  I know that when not using dialup the prefered 
selection 

>is "never dial a connection"  I know the second option should make you ok.  

>

>

> 

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Apparently selecting "never dial" in the Control Panel/Internet connections dialog 
fixes the problem. It is likely that I made that change in Windows XP a few years 
ago when I moved to dsl, as I never had the problem in XP, and had forgotten about 
having made that change in XP when I moved to Vista.







On Friday, April 11, 2008 at 4:12 am, John Liebson wrote:

>Thanks for responding.

>

>I rarely use IE; however, to see if this helps, I just changed to "never dial" from 

>"dial when a network connection is not present". 

>

>Hmm, I just remembered that there is also a setting in Control Panel/Internet connections. 

>Perhaps that needs to be changed, so I shall also have to experiment with that. 
(Five 

>years with Windows XP, now perhaps six weeks with Vista, and only a day or two with 

>a dial-up connection set up in Vista.)

>

>

>

> 

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