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I have recently upgraded our desktop from 95 to ME. My other machine is a laptop running NT and together with a hub and ISDN router, I have a small LAN.
The ME machine is dialling the internet every 10 or 11 minutes, even with no applications started. Why? This is costing me money as I have an ISDN connection with call charges.
The ME machine has file and print sharing enabled as I share with the NT machine but even if the latter is off, the connection is still being brought up.
Ideas anyone ?
- Graham ;-(
I would be looking for an "auto-dialer" that had installed itself.
Download and run Adaware and check for it and other spyware.
Jimi_l
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HI
Open email
Tools
Options
Box that says "If my computer is not connected this time" is set at DO NOT CONNECT
BOB
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try zonealarm
it should tell you what is accessing the net.
and stop it.windows me has a problem with connecting like this.
I don't know if this is your problem
but if it's the sucatreg.exe doing thisGoto Internet options
Advanced tab
scroll down the list to the heading of Security,
and Uncheck the option
“Check for publisher’s certificate revocation.”,
Then click OK. That should fix it.also you might want to scan for viruses
the sucatreg.exe has been rumored to get infected.
although in every case I've dealt with
there was no virus.
just the sucatreg.exe doing this dial out thing.
I think it may have start happening after a certain microsoft patch or update.
as I remember
after doing a clean install.
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Agree with all the above. Also try this
1) Click the Start button.
2) Select Settings and click Control Panel.
3) Double-click Internet Options. The Internet Properties window appears.
4) Click the Connections tab.
5) Select "Never Dial a Connection".
6) Click OK.
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Check the Scheduled Tasks.
PCHealth on mine was set to run every 10 minutes for 24 hours every day.
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Fraina,
if your PCHealth actually runs every 10 minutes, then it is broken on your machine like most other Windows ME systems. I had the problem. It should run every 10 minutes untill a successful update of the system configuration history records is made, showing no more changes, and then reschedule itself to every four hours. Try deleting the PCHealth icon in Scheduled Tasks, rebooting and let the machine set for 35 minutes and see what the schedule changes to.I actually got mine to working right, somehow?. That was a few days before I decided just to remove the useless thing by removing PCHealth from the StartUp menu with msconfig, and then deleting the PCHealth icon in the Scheduled Tasks folder.
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JackG
I turned PCHealth off along with the other scheduled tasks and System Restore early on.
I don't allow auto upgrades either, had to many problems with ones that made things worse instead of better.
ME is much more stable since i tweeked it.
Each computer is an individual, what works on yours may not work on mine.
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Virus WINKSU.exe collects information and sends this information every 10 mins.
Scan your system for WINKSU.exe, remove this program, while started in MSDOS-mode and clean up the collected mess.
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