WinXP:Constantly wants to dial an internet connection

[ScUmA]

Can someone pls dig this out of their limited XP knowledge base????

Obviosuly when not connected to a dial up connection, it keeps automatically trying to dial an internet connection. Even if the modem is off this occurs.

when it comes up as "dialing ........." whatever, I'd click cancel, although after about 30 seconds it'll try to dial again. This is a repetitive process.

I have played around and checked the dial up properties and a few other things but cannot locate anything that would be blatantly responsible for this problem.

Does anyone know how to prevent this????, surely it cannot be another one of microsofts intentionaly introduced new ideas

 

[HexVector]

That happens to me also, although it doens't happen often. It only automatically dials when a program requests it, so I'm assuming you have something running (in the background?) that is wanting a connection. I would check that first.

I still haven't figured out how to turn off this auto dialing. Under 98 it used to be under the Dialup dialog.

I think if you set "Never dial a connection" under Connections Tab in Internet properties, it might help.

 

[JenniferX]

Are ya'll networked to any other computer onsite or are you sharing an internet connection?

Everytime one of my other computers would boot or restart it would pop up the DUN for my ADSL. There is a switch that you can turn this off under network connections>properties of dialup device.

Of course this only applies if you are doing line 1 I think.

 

[ScUmA]

I have a small internal network using internet sharing, the XP machine connects to a win2000 server(for test reasons) but the XP machine acts as the default gateway(connects directly to the net)
although I don't think this could be related, I have nothing running in the services either awaiting an internet connection.........
another microsoft marketing scandal

 

[c0rv1d43]

There are quite a few processes, not all of them valid, that might want to initiate a dial-up session automatically. I like to manually initiate all dial-up sessions. You can defeat all of the automatic attempts by going into the Services applet under Administrative Tools and turning off the Remote Access Auto Connection Manager service, then setting it to Disabled. NOTE: Disabling a service is ordinarily not the smartest thing to do, But if you leave this particular one in the Manual mode, it will still continue to try to dial out for absolutely any process that requests it. Also, do NOT confuse this service with the similarly named Remote Access Connection Manager service. You do NOT want to turn that one off! Well, not unless you like being an Internet hermit.

- Collin

 

[TheRabidPenguin]

It might be the Automatic Update "feature." Right click on My Computer and go into properties | Automatic Updates. Tell it not to check for updates for you (now MS is trying to replace SA's!), and see if that does anything for you. If so, you can disable the service via the MMC.

 

[pbpek23]

Just click 'Never dial a connection' button. That's what I did....havn't seen that window pop up since...

 

[c0rv1d43]

The problem with the "never dial a connection" radio button is that almost anything will overide it. Windows and Office update will reset it when they update Messenger, IE, Outlook or Outlook Express, for instance. Then there are all the internal settings where, if you change a setting in the options of one of these programs, you may inadvertantly re-enable the auto-connection feature. If you disable the service I mentioned above, then no call for an automatic dial-up connection will be honored by DUN -- because it can't be honored.

- Collin