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by rg11

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I am on a WAN and two of the computers at my site have a dial up connection to an insurance company. I use IE5 and dial into this insurance company. When I goto open certain network applications the connection box keeps coming up tring to establish a dial up connection. I have my dial up settings set to "always dial my default connection". This is happening on a 95 and 98 machine. What can be done to prevent the dial up screen from coming up?????

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by clearsmashdrop

Try setting your dial up settings to Never Dial a Connection. This means you will have to manually connect for everything but the annoying pop ups will go away.

by jparade

Go to the "Tools" menu, select Internet Options. Click the "Connections" tab. Select "dial a connection when network connection not available. That should do it for you. Hope this helps, JAKE

by buffalodan

In internet options, change the connection setting from always dial default, to dial only when network connection not present.

this will force the system to look locally before attempting to dial.

Also, I would look into the properties of the shortcuts you are using, they might be incorrect or out of date...forcing the system to attempt to dial.

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