It's probably checking for automatic Updates for Windows, IE, and perhaps
apps like Media Player, and Defender. They all have update settings in the
Options. It would all depend on what, exactly, you run that does that. There
are thousands of possibilities.
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Mark L. Ferguson
"weedfrog" <weedfrog@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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> I have a laptop that automatically keeps on trying to access the internet
> via
> the dial up connection. I would perfer that it only creates a dial up
> connection when I manuall double click on the Internet Explorer Icon. I
> have tested different setting in the Internet Options/ Connections Tab.
> I
> have set it to 1. never dial a connection. (when I select this option then
> when I double click on Internet Explorer to make a connection it does not
> work) 2. dial whenever a network connection is not present.
> and 3. always dial my default connection. When I select the options 2 or
> 3
> my dial up connection window automaticlly appears and tries to dial my
> dial-up number when I actually do not want to connect to the internet.
> Is
> there any way to stop dialup connection from dialing when I dont want it
> to?
> When it does this then I have to cancel and close the dial up window. It
> seems my laptop did not do this before, is some other application causing
> the
> dial up to try to dial? If so how can I turn it off?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Weedfrog