Going online

[Terry]

I keep Peoplepc on my laptop. I have cable and a wireless router at
home. Over and over I have changed my inet options to never dial a
connection. Some how it gets changed back to dial out.

How can I stop this without un-installing Peoplepc? Peoplepc pops up
when I am on the network.

 

[Charlie Tame]

You probably have Outlook Express set up to periodically download email and
most default setups will have the account set to "Always connect using" a
certain connection.

Open OE and go tools>accounts>double click on the account name and find the
connection properties, uncheck the box marked always connect ....

When you okay the changes you should see the bit after the account name
changed to "Any Available"

Now, you may well be able to read the mail from your peoplepc server but
will get an error if you try to send mail through it, so you will probably
have to either set up another account with the peoplepc server as pop server
and your hi speed provider's smtp server... or you might just decide to
change the existing one if you are only keeping peoplepc as a backup. See
the sites below for more OE details.


--
Still the best sites for OE details
http://www.insideoe.tomsterdam.com/
http://www.oehelp.com/

Charlie

 

[Terry]

Thanks for your suggestions but, I don't use OE. I have Mozilla, but
most of the time I use web mail because I want to leave the messages on
the server. I don't even use peoplepc's mail server. The only time I
use dialup is for hospital trips which have been very infrequent
lately. These changes happen without ever running Peoplepc.

I have searched Mozilla for such a setting but no luck. In my server
settings I have nothing set to automatically do anything. ie check
mail at startup, every x min, autoget messages.

 

[Charlie Tame]

Well, OE does cause that problem quite often so it was the "Typical" answer,
and as sure as you are not running OE than maybe the same applies to
something else. I don't know peoplepc, did you run any files or install it
from a CD or anything like that? Maybe it's some kind of shared sponsorship
adware or just adware that got installed while you were using peoplepc's
connection?

Aha, I just discovered their privacy policy and I'm not now so sure that
peoplepc are as "Clean" as they would like us to believe. Look at this page
and check out such things as web beacons and their list of "Partners".

http://www.peoplepc.com/online/legals.asp?locid=1&pageid=1#webbeacons

I'd say you read this whole page and consider uninstalling their "Software".
Make a note of a good phone number you regularly use and your account
details and see if you can dial in and sign in without using their software.
Software should not be necessary for a clean dial in system, just a phone
number and a network name and password because Windows takes care of the
rest. Of course this may breach their user agreement, which is unfortunate,
but for the purposes of testing I think it's legitimate experimentation and
if you discover the problem goes away then you pretty much know they are
pulling a fast one hidden in the small print somewhere, if not they why
would they have a problem with it .

Charlie