Have you ever been annoyed by the windows popup that keeps appearing when you are on the internet. Shove off you say! Why are you coming up when I am on broadband? It can even come up when you are not connected dial-up or otherwise.
Why does it keep coming up? Well first you must have a dial-up connection configured so if you don’t use it any more get rid of it. If you still require your dial-up connection then there are other things you can do to stop it. (More about this later)
So why does it keep coming up? Well if it comes up while you are connected to your broadband network it can be caused by a temporary drop in you broadband connection. This triggers an automatic start of your dial-up connection. Another reason is that you may have a nasty program in your computer and it is trying to dial out. If you allow it to dial out you may be charged through your telephone company especially if it happens to be a program trying to connect to a porn site. Get rid of it, run your virus program and anti-spyware and whatever else you have to search it out. (You do have these programs don’t you?) You are being naughty if you don’t.
Some legitimate applications are configured to check for updates automatically by contacting home. If they are courteous they should identify and notify you before contacting their servers. This may be caused by parasites as well. Adware contact their servers to fetch Ads and some Trojans may even grab and send out your valuable information.
So what can we do to stop this? Well first if you do not need a dial-up connection anymore this is how you remove it.
Left click on the “start” button at the bottom left of your screen, Left click on “settings” then “Control Panel” if you are using the “classic” menu or just “Control Panel” if you are using the normal menu.
When the “Control Panel” window appears, find the icon that says “Network Connections” and double left click it.
You will now see a list of all your Internet connections. There will be one under “Dial-Up” right click and then select “delete”. Whoopee! No problems anymore.
So what do you do if you want to keep your Dial-Up” connection. Well we have to get a little bit more techie here but not much. Windows–XP has what are called “services” These do a lot of the things behind the scenes for you. One of these is to allow remote auto access. This service is called. “Remote Access Auto Connection Manager” service. (Microsoft loves rambling identifiers) We are going to seek it out and stop it and this is how:
If you have a “My Computer” icon on your desk top, right click it and select “manage”
If this icon is missing then click on the “start” button and get to the “Control Panel” window again. Look for the icon named “Administrative Tools” and double left click on it. Another window will appear where you will see an icon named “Computer Management” double left click on it. Wheee! you will end up in the same place as you would have if you had a “My Computer” icon but in a roundabout way.
In the window presented, expand in the left column (click on the +) where it says “Services and Applications” then click on “services”
A list of all the “services” run by windows will appear in the right hand column, some with impossibly long names. You may have to make the window bigger and increase the column size to see the entire name. (Move the | dividers in the headings)
Scroll down and find the “Remote Access Auto Connection Manager ” and double left click on it. In the window that appears find the label “Startup Type”. In the drop down box select “disable” then click on “apply” then “OK”. Bingo! No more dial-up, pop-up windows.
Now just close all the windows and go on your way and forget about that annoying windows popup in windows-xp.
