Now wireless, but dial up window pops up

I recently went wireless, but the window pops up to dial in whenever I open the browser. I don't want to delete the dial up connection, because I want it available for those occasions when we lose wireless (I live in New Orleans and this happens periodically.) How do I disable this?

Thanks,

Margot

 

I'm using Mozilla, and the only choice under connections is for proxy settings.

 

I moved over to Firefox after moving to broadband and therefore after leaving dial-up, so am not absolutely sure, but:

I think you'll find that Windows still bases its descision of whether or not to try the dial-up option on the setting in Internet Explorer's connection settings, even if you are not actually using IE.

So try setting the IE connection setting to either "Never dial a connections" or "Dial whenever a network connection is not present" (I'd recommend the first. You can alway change it manually if you need to use a dial-up). I think it will effect the behaviour of Windows when you use Mozilla.

 

The remarkable Kelly Theriot, MS-MVP has some thoughts:

Check your settings here:

Right click the My computer icon (Desktop), open Manage/Services and Applications/Services. In the right pane scroll down to Remote Access Auto Connection Manager and double click it. Use the Startup type drop box and choose Disabled.

Network Connections/Advanced/Dial-Up Preferences/Enable Auto-Dial by Location/Uncheck all locations and Always ask me before Auto-Dialing.

If remote connections are enabled in Windows, the system may try to initiate an Internet connection at Windows startup or at the start of many applications. This setting disables that behavior.

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Ole
Value Name: EnableRemoteConnect
Data Type: REG_SZ (String Value)
Value Data: "Y" = enable automatic connections, "N" = disabled.

Create a new String value, or modify the existing value, called 'EnableRemoteConnect' and edit the value according to the settings above.

Exit your registry, you may need to restart or log out of Windows for the change to take effect.

Modify the Internet Auto-Dial Settings

Windows has the option to automatically dial your Internet Service Provider (ISP) to establish an Internet connection. This option can be controlled using this tweak.

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings

Create a new binary value named "EnableAutodial ", and set the new value to equal "01 00 00 00" to enable autodial or "00 00 00 00" to disable it.

Note: This restriction can be used either on a user by user basis by adding it to HKEY_CURRENT_USER or on a computer wide basis by adding it to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings

To view the list of names and addresses recorded by AutoDial:
Start, Run, CMD
rasautou -s

To delete a name or address entry from the list:
Start/Run/Regedit
Navigate to:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\RAS Autodial\Addresses

You can delete any TCP/IP addresses that you see under this key. Note that AutoDial can use IP addresses, DNS fully qualified domain names (FQDN), and NetBIOS names.

 

Thanks, all!

Margot