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dial up box often pop up

I'm having a p3 450Mhz with 64 mbram and win98 loaded.After browsing the net frequently the dial up dialogue box starts popping on it's every 20 seconds and does not let me do other rpogrammes.I have to minimise it and work on other softwares is there a way out?
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something is trying to dial your isp...could be an update program scheduled to run, email program, a lot of different things. hit ctrl-alt-del and let us know what shows as running.


Rick
Do you have more than 1 entry in Dial-Up-Networking?

reghakr
You could check your internet tools in control panel.  Go to the connections tab and check to see if your settings are dial whenever a network connection is not present instead of always dial my default connection.  But what you should really be concerned about is what program is trying to send or receive information.  You can get a program called zone alarm from www.grc.com that will give you control of what programs are accessing the net.

Jeff
Please ignor the first part of my last answer.  You need to have internet tools set to always dial default.  Check to make sure if you have more than on dialer in the box that it is the same one that you usually use to dial up.  If it is not just high-light the right one and hit the set default button.
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Thanks everybody for the answer you'll have been of great help.
thanks all been of great help.