disconnect when connection may no longer be needed

I hope this falls in the right link. Only thing I could find was a 'new thread' button, no reply button anywhere.

Anyways I've tried all the other options including a new dialup and registry modification.
I suspect it's a mouse problem or something else.

I get the disconnect window. it seems to load a random number of seconds to stay onscreen. If I get the mouse too close to the disconnect button, the window closes with me still online.

Or I can sit the without touching the mouse and the window will just sit there, still online.
I've only tried it once since creating the new dialup and it appeared only long enough to identify the shape of the window, couldn't see what was written on it it closed that fast.

What's causing this ? and how to fix it ?

 

Did you try what fixed BarryH thread?

To fix the problem on my friends computer I had to re-create the dial-up connection entry then delete the original. This then allowed me to access the 'advanced settings' dialog where I could then tick the option for auto disconnect.

Also, since you're rather new to the board. You posted a reply to BarryH that is unrelated to his problem.

installed internet explorer over top of msn explorer and now have a buggy system

This is a different problem that needs to be posted separately (ie new thread).

 

Actually it isn't. If you'd followed the link 'here' to a msn help page you'd have seen the fix they suggest. Which made me see the auto disconnect might be msn related.

I installed msn explorer to save a few hours downloading the explorer never thinking that msn and internet explorer though identical in every visible aspect, they're two different birds.

What happened was (I suspect) the message section couldn't read a cookie, or failed to load the reply button as all I saw was start a new thread button starting this mess over here.

Now in addition to the auto disconnect playing hide and seek, I may have MSN explorer troubles.

I dumped all cached pages and releoaded, getting the reply button into view and moved this to the right thread with reply.

So just drop this thread, less you have a cure for the auto disconnect trouble caused by installing msn explorer..

No need having 2 threads of the same subject.