How to make automatic dial-up network connection in Windows?

[mike1242]

Hi, there:

Is there anyone know how to make an automatic dial-up network connection to internet in Windows 95/98? (suppose I have the ISP and password)

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Sincerely Yours

Michael

[sethw]

Here's a way to do it but its not the standard way, it might give you advantages and disadvantes also. Please mail me at [email protected] if you find a more standard way of doing it..

(I'm assuming you want to create a dialup connection using a VB program)

1> Use "Make New Connection" to setup up a dialer the way you want it.

2> You'll find this new dialer in HKCU\RemoteAccess\Addresses. Copy this key
(binary value) into you VB program's data file.

3> When you want the program to make this connection, you will create a new key in the RemoteAccess\Addresses under the desired name. This will put a new dialer in dial up networking.

4> if you want the user or the program to use this connection you should put a .dun file in the windows\desktop directory.

To do this, you must first drag the connection you made in Make New Connection onto the desktop. This will put a .dun file in the windows\desktop directory containing the important information that windows will use when activating the dialer that you've put in the registry. if you look at this .dun file you can see elements which you can change. the Import_Name must correspond to the new key you've made. Save this .dun file in one of your VB programs data file,
and have the program copy it into the c:\windows\desktop directory.

The end result is you'll have an Icon on the desktop which is just like an ordinary dialer, the user or your program can then activate it. If you play around with this you will find some little quirks but it functions fine, its just not too editable...


There definetely has to be an easier way but if you've got some good registry code(the registry demo on vb-world is really good) it won't take long.

[sethw]

Sorry I left something out of step 3 > You need to copy the binary data that you got from the previous steps into the new key you make in RemoteAccess\Addresses...