I have broadband so why doesn't my pc keep saying I'm offline and asking me to connect to dial-up?

[Kbear]

eh? eh?

[Kbear]

I meant why does my pc keep saying I'm offline?

[RustyBear]

You may have something installed that is set up to use the dial up connection - see this query.
Where's LL when you need her?

[Kbear]

Rustybear, thanks!

[hoxtonchick]

is it virgin broadband? ours is crap, really unreliable. never had any problems when it was blueyonder. moan moan whinge whinge. sorry kbear, this isn't helping you is it....

[Kbear]

yes it's Virgin. It was fine until something happened to the pc the other week and we lost everything and had to start from factory settings and reload everything.

I wish I knew about pooters!

[GeekBoy]

how's your broadband working? Wireless/USB/Wired? All the dial-up bits in Windows are tied into Internet Explorer.. ..so you can make things not dial up by opening Internet Explorer, Click on tools/Internet Options and then select the connections tab. Set the dialup preferences to Never dial a connection and see what that does for you.

[Kbear]

I did what Rusty's link said and so far so good!

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