A. Predmore wrote: > With Win95 and 98 and using NS 4.7x with dial-up networking (modem) upon > double clicking Netscape's icon my dialer pops up. It happens with IE > also. With Windows 2000 when I launch IE my dialer pops up. It won't > work with NS and I like this feature as it saves keystrokes.
I'm using Mozilla, but have had the same problem. I tracked down a registry key that seems to have a (major) effect on Autodial with Moz/NS. In regedit go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\RAS Autodial\Control\Locations There should be a DWORD item with the *name* 1 (the digit one). Make sure it's *value* is 0 (zero). Over many months I have found that as long as this is set to zero then autodial works reliably with Moz/NS, although not quite as well as IE does, but then IE is part of the OS so has an advantage over Moz/NS in this respect. I don't know what changes the data of this item but every time autodial stops working with Moz I find that something has changed the *value* of this data item from 0 to 1 and changing it back starts autodial working again. BTW, Moz still gives "Failed to connect to server" if I go offline, disconnect from the 'net, go online (in Moz), then click Get Messages; I still have to start DUN again manually, after which Moz will connect OK. HTH > With 2000 I > can't get this to happen reliably after setting the auto dial and auto > connection service to automatic. No matter if the services are on or > off, IE will pop up a dialer. If they are on and you use Netscape then > it either works right or when Windows starts it prompts to auto dial > without any programs starting up. Because I am unable to track down what > is causing this to happen, I would like to find a resource to give me a > registry tweak or other solution to make the auto dial feature perform > just the way it does with Netscape and Win 98. No browser, no dialer > window. It's frustrating because just when I get it working I'll start > Windows and there's that annoying dialer. When I launch NS the dialer > pops up. Turn off the services, restart Windows, no dialer prompt but > also no connection when I use NS yet double-click IE and up pops a > dialer window. Sorry for babbling. I just got real used to these > features with '95 and '98. Any suggestions? > >
