Extraneous Dial-Up Connection Attempts

Extraneous Dial-Up Connection Attempts

I've been experiencing extraneous dial-up connection
attempts occurring during start up, shut down, and invoking
various applications that don't even require dial-ups.

It's particularly evident when using Windows Explorer to
open or view Properties of Text files by left or right
clicking on them. It brings up the "Connect To" dialog box
and commenced dialing up my ISP before I had unchecked its
"Connect automatically" box. Now the dialog box just sits
there waiting for me to click something on it. Nothing
happens with Windows Explorer until the "Connect To" dialog
box is dealt with which takes two Cancels before it stops
reappearing. Then the prior clicked function in Windows
Explorer finally manifests itself (very annoying).

Isn't there someplace where you can select NOT to have
"Auto-Dial-Up on Demand" when you invoke an application that
does require an Internet connection?

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randau
Oregon, USA

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