My sister gave me her old laptop with Win2000, but she lost the recovery discs. The modem doesn't work, so I can't connect to the internet. When I'm playing a game, a window always pops up interupting the game asking if I want to work offline or online every 5 minutes and it never stops. If I had the recovery discs, I could reinstall the OS, but I dont. Can anyone tell me how I can stop this constant pop-up window? Thanks.

Maybe install the modem drivers and connect to the net?

If you can post what kind of a laptop you're dealing with maybe I can find out what modem it uses. Need the model number, manufacturer and everything else that associated with the model.

Something like "it's an Acer Aspire One D260" would help.

All I can tell you is that its a Dell Latitude with Pentium3. I'm only using this computer to play old games before WinXP. I dont want to use it for internet at all, just offline gaming. I just want to stop the pop-up from interrupting my gaming. Thanks.

I would try and get rid of IE but at that time I think it was so tied into the OS it may be impossible.

I found this that may help

Look in the registry (START >> RUN >> REGEDIT)

Using regedit, find the folder:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\WebCheck

And check that these two *String* keys are set to auto:
"LoadSens"="auto"
"LoadLCE"="auto"
Create them if necessary!


TADAAA!! And that's all, FOLKS!! Hope it helps!

Try this:

go to Internet Explorer, then click Tools>Internet Options, click the Connections tab, then click Never dial a connection. Click Apply and OK.

Thanks for your input. I will try both suggetions and let you know if they work.

I see the line but its grayed out and I can't make any changes.

You may need admin rights (is this an old work computer?).

Yes, my sister used to work fo Oracle. It was already there. Thanks anyway.

Perhaps this could possibly help you (?) :
"Dialup settings button is greyed out" & "The dialup window keeps appearing without prompting"
(the fact that "Dialup settings button is greyed out" may also be because you have no "dialup hardware" in which case the above may not apply)
Also : Do NOT edit the Windows registry unless that you understands what you are doing and are able to backup the registry and restore from a registry backup.


If you can locate the drivers for the PC for your O.S. then I don't think that a Win 2000 CD and license will cost you much second hand, its so old by now that people are often simply throwing away the stuff (Win 2K discs and licenses)....

Further to what FiatLux said above, you might actually still have the licence even if you don't have the disc. Look on the bottom for a sticker with a Windows Licence Key on it.
You can download and burn the disc and then use that key with it.

If you don't have a key, I actually have a one on the bottom of an old broken laptop that I'm never realistically going to use. You can have that if you want (you'll obviously have to get the disc yourself though).