Paul
It appears you have connect on demand selected in your internet connection
goto settings - Network and dial-up connections - open your dial-up
connection for your ISP (named whatever you named it) right click for
properties and on connection tab select don't dial the internet (or whatever
the wording is)  Then whenever you need to connect to the net connect via
the dial-up connection

hope this solves your problem
Bob Stout



Hi I have just started using windows 2000 and in outlook 2000 anytime i
attempt to open a html email it loads up the dial-up connection.

I have disabled the preview pain and still no luck.  In windows 98, this
would happen on the first  event of opening the email but wouldn't do so
after this on the same email or any subsequent html emails.  It is very
annoying and i don't know how to  stop it from doing this.

Any suggestions with many thanks,

Paul.

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