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Old 03-18-2001, 01:04 PM
muffinman muffinman is offline
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There's something wrong with my computer. No matter what I'm doing, The computer pops up a new "Dial Up Networking" dialer window every 5-10 minutes. If I do nothing, it will keep opening more and more instances (my record was 28 at once). I can't figure out what program is trying to dial in. As best I can tell, all winsock applications are fine. The problem, BTW, didn't occur until I upgraded to a newer version of Microsoft WinSock.
Any thoughts?
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Old 03-18-2001, 01:11 PM
Crusoe Crusoe is offline
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If you're using Internet Explorer, this might work:

Open IE, and open the "Tools" menu. Select "Internet Options" and click on the "Connections" tab. Make sure that the "Dial whenever a network connection is not present" button is unchecked for each connection you have.

If that doesn't work, it might be something in software you've installed trying to dial up.
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