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Frank and Karen Williams <[log in to unmask]>
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Sun, 6 Dec 1998 08:04:14 -0500
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Sylvain Gallant wrote:

> I believe the problem is that you may have Real Audio Smart Start in your system tray. Probably RA 5. If you right click on the icon and select "disable smart start" your problems will go away. I found this bug listed somewhere but can't remember where.
>
> HTH.
>
> Sylvain Gallant
>
> At 09:09 AM 12/4/98 -0500, you wrote:
> >I've had an upgrade install of WIN98 on my computer now for about 3 months.
> snip
> >My wife noticed that
> >the computer would randomly dial out to our ISP using the Internet dialer (
> >It dials out and stays on our for about 15 seconds and automatically hangs
> >up).
> >
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Disabling smart start is also important when running the defrag utility. Otherwise disk contents change each time it dials and defrag starts over.Net result is defrag never completes.

Frank

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