Re: Continous modem activity

On Tue, 30 Aug 2005 16:24:06 +0100,it is alleged that Graham Jolliffe
<grayjaymail-newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxx> spake thusly in
uk.telecom.broadband:

<snip>

>>If you do updates manually, you can disable BITS by logging in as an
>>administrator (usually the 'owner' account) going to start>control
>>panel>administrative tools (not sure which section it's in, I use
>>classic view for control panel), services, and find Background
>>Intelligent Transfer Service, right click it, choose 'properties' and
>>stop the service. If this solves your problem (IE the extra bandwidth
>>usage goes away), you can set it to 'manual' start instead of
>>'automatic'. I have done this both with windows 2000 professional and
>>XP professional.
>>
>>HTH
>
>Hi Chip,
>
>Thanks for responding. That setting was already manual, setting it
>to disabled has not made any difference. Any other thoughts?

Only things I can suggest are trying the same re: Automatic Updates
service, Messenger, (which should be disabled on a computer with a
direct internet connection anyway), and Netmeeting Remote desktop
sharing.

Some services are vital to the computer's functioning, some just add
security holes^w.. err extra features <g>. Stopping them one at a
time, then seeing if it stops the internet activity, and if not,
restarting them and moving on to the next one might be an option here.

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