I recently bought an HP Pavilion, celeron, 128mb, 800mh with WinME and restore disks. I am really confused about why I cannot get my Auto-Disconnect to work. I have gone into the Dial-Up properties and checked "Disconnect when connection is no longer needed" and that doesn't work. I have used tweakers, (X-Setup among them), and I have been all over the registry. How can I make it come back and stay there?

i dunno, but right click the double computers in the task bar then click disconnect. that'll get you off the net.

David, you dont have to muck around in registry , since you have changed a few things what I suggest retore your system back to before any changes were made and then DUN >properties > dial tab , at the very botton do you have a check mark ? if not try that I have no problems disconnecting. hope it works. ;-)

Thanks for the responses, guys. I know how to right-click the connection icon, Guru. I'm just lazy and like to just click the disconnect button. Redpepper, I've been there and clicked that, it just doesn't take for some reason. As far as the registry goes, I merely went to that key and changed the value. It still won't take. But thanks anyway guys.

I have an HP Pavilion 7845, and have the same problem. I have called tech support, posted at the forum, and emailed tech support. They are never much help. All they know how to do is msconfig, or remove ghost drivers, or reformat. I have checked those same settings REPEATEDLY, to no avail. I wish if someone could tell me how to make the auto disconnect box come up every time you go offline they would respond. I can't figure out how to make it work on this HP computer, either.

I have been able to make the auto disconnect box come up. YOu go to start, run, then type in msconfig. When that box comes up , on the general tab, click selective start up. Then go to the start up tab and uncheck all these boxes: Taskbar display controls, Money start up, hysysdrv, DJReg Fix, Load Power Profile(only choose this one if you don't use the standby feature), MM Tray, Delay, Works FUD, Microsoft Works Portfolio, Microsoft Works Detection Update, SSDPSRV. Then click ok. It will tell you that you need to restart your computer, do you want to restart now. Click yes, or ok, whichever it says. When it restarts, it will have a box that tells you that you are using selective start up to trouble shoot your system, click don't show me this again. One of these programs is interfering with the auto disconnect box from appearing. You can figure out which one it is by adding back one program at a time going to msconfig like you just did. Then try going online with each one at a time reenabled. I am not sure which one of these programs is causing the problem, as I haven't added back any of the programs yet, but that box comes up every single time if you disable the above programs. It also raises the amount of available system resources. When I add back the programs and figure out which one is the problem, I will post back and let you know which one is the problem. I just haven't messed with determining the troublesome at this point. I would have to find out how to go into that particular program and disable it from start up to correct it at the root cause. Try this and see if it makes the box come back up. It worked for me.