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One of your appliactions must be telling your system to do this. What programs do you have in your startup group? What icons appear on your tool bar at startuo? &nbsp;Can you list all the browser software you use?<br />
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One of your appliactions must be telling your system to do this. What programs do you have in your startup group? What icons appear on your tool bar at startuo?  Can you list all the browser software you use?



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I'm the same. Make sure that you don't have anything you don't need in your startup folder especially an internet related program ie browser etc.<br />

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I'm the same. Make sure that you don't have anything you don't need in your startup folder especially an internet related program ie browser etc.


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There could also be something getting loaded from the registry. &nbsp;Go to HKLM/Software/Microsoft/Wi<wbr />ndows/Curr<wbr />entVersion<wbr />/Run<br />
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and see what is being loaded.<br />

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There could also be something getting loaded from the registry.  Go to HKLM/Software/Microsoft/Windows/CurrentVersion/Run

and see what is being loaded.


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Windows 98 has suddenly started to automatically launch my internet connection when I start the computer. &nbsp;This is annoying and expensive. &nbsp;How do I stop it?
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Windows 98 has suddenly started to automatically launch my internet connection when I start the computer.  This is annoying and expensive.  How do I stop it?

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