John,

You can also just use RegEdit directly instead of creating .reg files as the article suggests. Here's the section from VS6 install.htm:

An Internet Connection Dialog Box May Appear at Startup of Windows or Other Applications

If remote connections are enabled in Windows 95 or Windows 98, the system may try to initiate an Internet connection at Windows startup or at the start of many applications. This behavior is sometimes called "autodial" or "autoconnect." You can turn off this behavior by setting the registry key EnableRemoteConnect to "N."

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

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

Changing this setting to disable remote connections should not prevent any of your normal Internet activities, and this setting is the default for most systems. However, enabling remote connections is necessary for some features of DCOM (see http://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, "EnableRemoteConnect.reg", with exactly the following 3 lines:

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[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.


>Can you post what exactly those 2 reg entries are? I had this same problem when I installed the beta version of MSSQL 7. I haven't yet upgrade to VS6 so I don't have access to this file.