Losing internet connection when switching users

[skuhlman]

Recently my computer started losing connection to the internet whenever I log off and log in as a different user (or when I "switch users". Aside from installing "System Suite" about the same time, I know of nothing else which could be causing this.

Any ideas or suggestions?

 

[bcastner]

To work around this behavior, you need to add the KeepRASConnections value to the Registry.

1. Start the Registry Editor by clicking Start, Run and entering REGEDIT.EXE. Click OK.
2. Expand the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE branch and locate the Software\Microsoft\Windows
NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon sub-branch.
3. Right click on a blank area of the right pane and select New, String value.
4. Name the new string value: KeepRASConnections
5. Double click the KeepRASConnections value and enter a “1”, without the quotes, for the value data. Click OK.
6. Close the Registry Editor by clicking File, Exit
7. Close all applications and reboot the computer.

 

[skuhlman]

The KeepRASConnections entry is already in the registry under that path, with 1 as the data value and REG_SZ as the type.

 

[skuhlman]

any other ideas?

 

[bcastner]

See:

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/networking/learnmore/tips/theriot1.mspx

Particularly the second part discussing connection settings.