Re: Messenger 7 appears to be auto-dialing

A follow-up thought. Is there a way in Windows to restrict which
applications are given dial-up permission?

And I'm going to reiterate that this seems to be new behavior. in the past,
when I disconnected, Messenger immediately went offline. Now, it persists
in an online state and tries to dial back in... >:(

"Jonathan Kay [MVP]" <msnewsreplies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:ecDCWfuYFHA.2508@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Greetings Ion,
>
> Actually this isn't a bug, it's by design. MSN Messenger uses WinInet
> (basically, Internet Explorer) to connect. If your settings in Internet
> Explroer are to automatically dial when required, then Messenger will
> cause the same to happen.
>
> As such, to stop this behavior, click the Tools menu, then Internet
> Options, then Connections tab, select "Never dial a connection" and it
> should be back to normal.
> ____________________________________________
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> "Ion Control" <IonCOntrol@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:ul84f2tYFHA.2796@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Contrary to my past experience, Messenger 7 (build 7.0.0813) appears to
>> be automaitcally dialing when it loads up or after I manually disconnect.
>> In the past, it was passive and never established a connection of its
>> own. now, it appears to insist on maintaining a constant connection.
>> Disabling "Start with windows" and "automaitcally logon when connected"
>> are not options to solve this (if I have to uncheck those, I move to
>> AOL). This appears to be some kind of bug since I've never experienced
>> this behavior before. Any ideas...?
>>
>
>


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