Appearance of Internet Connection Dialog Box at Startup of Windows 95 or Windows 98

If remote connections are enabled in Microsoft® Windows® 95 or Microsoft Windows 98, the system may initiate an Internet connection at Windows startup or at the start of many applications. This behavior is sometimes called autodial or autoconnect, and can be disabled by setting the registry key EnableRemoteConnect to N.

To do this, create a text file named DisbleAutoConnect.reg with the following three lines:

REGEDIT4
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\OLE]
"EnableRemoteConnect"="N"

Changing this setting to disable remote connections should not prevent any of your usual Internet activities. This setting is the default for most systems. However, enabling remote connections is necessary for some features of DCOM For more information, see the Knowledge Base article, HOWTO: Troubleshoot Run-Time Error '429' in DCOM Applicationshttp://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q177/3/94.asp.

If there are instances when you need to have remote connections enabled, create a second REG file, named EnableRemoteConnect.reg, with the following lines:

REGEDIT4 
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\OLE] 
"EnableRemoteConnect"="Y" 

Run EnableAutoConnect.reg to make the setting, and then run DisbleAutoConnect.reg to disable it when autoconnect is no longer needed.