cdnsniper 0 Posted August 8, 2005 Share Posted August 8, 2005 Alright this has been going on for awhile now but it's really starting to bug me. What happens is that once I'm offline the "Connect To" screen pops up. Closing it just opens up 2-4 more of the screens and after you close them it just starts coming up randomly. It almost always does this when I'm playing a game or opening up My Computer. Also, since I'm on 56k with only one phoneline when I get a call I'm disconnected and the screen pops up asking me to connect, it's even started to redial after being disconnected by an incoming call thus cutting off the call. And another thing that's really annoying is that when I'm using IE in multiple windows it'll just switch to another window after it's done loading, making me lose my place while reading or missing a part of a video . So, does anybody know how I can eliminate these annoying problems? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
firefly2442 0 Posted August 8, 2005 Share Posted August 8, 2005 Try going into your network connections and see if your modem is listed. There might be some settings there that you can change to make it stop trying to connect. Also, in IE, goto the connections area and make sure it's not trying to connect when a program asks for an internet connection. I would stop using IE and use Firefox. Tabbed browsing is pretty cool. HTH Quote Link to post Share on other sites
CR6 0 Posted August 8, 2005 Share Posted August 8, 2005 Also make sure you do a scan for viruses and spyware. You may have a malicious program running in the background trying to "call home" while you are offline. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
cdnsniper 0 Posted August 9, 2005 Author Share Posted August 9, 2005 Okay there was a setting that I found that let me choose between three options. A)Never dial a connection B)Dial whenever a network connection is not present (this was selected) C)Always dial my defualt connection I just set it to never dial a connection and made sure I could still dial a connection lol so I'll post back here if this stops it or not. And about Firefox two of my friends use it so I'll just ask them about that and I'll probably make the switch. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
the.ronin 5 Posted August 9, 2005 Share Posted August 9, 2005 cdnsniper ... i will check my settings when i get home ... also dont ever use that dooshbag msn dialer ... make your own network connection manually. and, yes, you gots to make the switch to firefox. ie blows. if you have a fire wall like zone alarm, it should tell you whatever is trying to connect through the internet. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
the.ronin 5 Posted August 10, 2005 Share Posted August 10, 2005 ok cdsniper ... just checked my ie internet option / connection settings - *never dial a connection* ... of course this is the first time i booted up that atrocity in a long time and of course, some virus changed my homepage to some website in holland written in dutch. go firefox, man. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
cdnsniper 0 Posted August 10, 2005 Author Share Posted August 10, 2005 lol, I'll run it by my parents so they know whats up then I'll go firefox Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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