Network/dialup conflict

[Asp]

Sorry if this is a incoherent, but if I understood what was happening I wouldn't be asking this...

I use Win2kSP4.

I had been using ADSL broadband for a few years, using RASPPPoE to make a pseudo Dial-up networking modem connection. It all worked fine, but I need connect a laptop so got a broadband router.

That was surprisingly painless, and I connected through that without any problems.

Until: a month ago there was an outage with my ISP, so I connected via a 56k modem, using dial-up networking, (the router and laptop were offline).

After I got broadband back, it mostly worked fine -- but if there was any delay in connecting, my modem connection would pop up and try to connect. So I deleted that, and so the next time my old RASPPPoE connection came up.

More annoying, some software refused to work using the router/LAN Internet connection, and kept trying to make a dial-up networking connection. Things like "Dimension4", a network time utility, which had worked perfectly on the LAN connection before.

I do want to keep the dialup networking icons as a backup connection.

Why are some applications trying to use them when there is a perfectly good LAN connection?

How do I make that the default for everything?

Do I have to delete all my Dial-up connection icons to do that?

[Mijzelf]

In Control Panel->Internet options there's a tab 'Connections'. Make sure that 'Never dial-in' is choosen here. (The exact text can differ, I have no English windows here).

[Asp]

In Control Panel->Internet options there's a tab 'Connections'. Make sure that 'Never dial-in' is choosen here. (The exact text can differ, I have no English windows here).

It worked!!

Thanks.

(How or why that setting was changed, will be forever a mystery, I suppose.)