Internet Explorer prompts for internet connection for local page...

Hi,

I'm running Apache 2.0 as a service on my other Win2K machine.

I've set the homepage for Internet Explorer to "http://localserver/" and
made the necessary adjustments to Apache's http.conf file to make a local
directory act as my localserver root.

The pages display fine, however Internet Explorer always prompts me to
connect to the internet each time I start it. E.g. "work offline" or "try
again".

Hitting "try again" makes the page load succesfully, and it never prompts me
again. I basically want to stop it from bothering to prompt me. I have no
dial-up accounts on my PC (it is a complete isolated stand alone).

I once tried creating a "fake" dialup account, and IE ceased bothering me to
dial-up. This worked fine until recently, when I changed the root folder
for localserver. Now, I get prompted to connect to the internet as soon as
I log into windows!!

Any help to stop this annoying problem would be greatly appreciated.

Duncan Jones

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Duncan Jones said:

Hi,

I'm running Apache 2.0 as a service on my other Win2K machine.

I've set the homepage for Internet Explorer to "http://localserver/" and
made the necessary adjustments to Apache's http.conf file to make a local
directory act as my localserver root.........

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Okay, I realised apache is not to blame. Something else is prompting
windows to dial-up. I need to reformat the beast anyway, so I guess I'll
just do that to lazily fix the problem.