>>Ever since I've installed VS 6, every time I start my PC, it want to access the internet. Since I have dial-up access only, this is a pain.
>>Now, it tried to dial out because I wanted to access help, which is installed on my local hard drive. This seems vert inconvenient, and more than a little ridiculous. When I canceled dial-up, Help hung.
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>>I know I need (and am using) IE4, but this is silly!
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>>Is there some setting I can change so that it won't try to access the internet unless I want it to?
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>HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\OLE\EnableRemoteConnect should be set to "N" (courtesy of Fred Taylor)

The real courtesy goes to Ed Rauh for this. At least that's where I got it from!