Why am I always being prompted for dial up....
 

....when I am already connected to my home network via Wifi?

Windows XP, Service Pack 2.

Can someone please help?

More details:

My laptops (I have 2), always used to connect to the home network just fine with no special prompting. Last week, I tried to reconfigure the network so that I can share folders (should be pretty straightforward, right?) using the Windows wizards, etc.

Now, when I am online, I am sometimes prompted to connect via my dial-up. I am already connected - AIM fires up, Firefox as well. But then, from time to time, I am asked to connect on the dial-up. I click "Cancel" and most everything works normally, but it's a real pain in the ass.

Anyone have any thoughts?

you might have a porn dialer on your computer, basically one of those old ass programs designed to run up your phone bills making international calls without you knowing it.


that'd be my guess.

download any strange exes or let some hormone drenched people on your computer? :)

If you connect in more than one way (I connect through LAN at home and PCMCIA modem elsewhere), you ususally set the connectin properties to "dial whenever a network connection is not pesent" - sorry in the control panel under "internet options" and the the "connections" tab. If you only connect one way, through WiFi change to "never dial a connection". I sometimes get this message on the laptop, when connected by LAN, I figure it means there was a slight lag in signal ar a temp drop in signal strength for Windows to think no LAN connection was present. If you don't have multiple connection options, what Shauk said.

Can you not just disable the dialup connection all together? If not, then follow what Ratman said here and hopefully that will get you fixed up.

It may be as simple as a partially set up dial up account under your internet explorer> internet options> connections >dial up and VPN settings

if there is an account there, just delete it and you'll stop getting prompts

kinda weird that it starts doing that out of nowhere. I would suggest running some good antivirus and antispyware stuff just in case.

Thanks all

I am trying Ratman's fix on one laptop. If it works here, I will apply to the others as well.

Wish me luck!