computer intercepting phone calls

[amygirl431]

Good day to all!

Whenever my computer is powered on, not connected to the internet just on, if the phone rings the computer picks up the call and the caller hears the noise like the noise that you would hear if you picked up the phone while connected to the web (dial-up). Any ideas as to why my computer does this? By the way it has done it ever since I have had the computer (2 yrs), It was my moms previously. Thanks. Amy

[Landon]

What is happening is your dial-up modem is set to auto-answer when it senses that a phone call has come through. BBSes (the few that are left) and FAX machines all have their modems set this way, but since you are complaining about it I doubt that you want your modem to do this.

Anyway... Go into the Control Panel, then into Dial-up Networking, then delete any connection icons that are in here that you know that you do not use and/or need. If you use Broadband to connect to the Internet just delete them all.

Then have someone call your phone number or if you have a cell phone call it yourself and see if your computer still answers the phone.

[amygirl431]

Thanks for your reply. I deleted a couple connections that I was not using and that did not fix the problem, however I went to the connections tab (in dial-up networking) and clicked on dial up server and under my modem I noticed that it said that it was 'monitoring' and that "allow caller access" was checked. So I checked "no caller access" instead and this fixed the problem! it then said 'idle'. I have no idea what any of this means but it worked. :happy:

[Landon]

Cool, glad that that worked!

For a long term fix for this go into the Control Panel and then click on ADD/REMOVE PROGRAMS, then click on the WINDOWS SETUP tab, after it is done thinking a new window should pop up. Double click right on the word COMMUNICATIONS then take the check off of "Dial Up Server", click OK, then click APPLY, you may need to click OK again.

If it wants to reboot let it reboot, you should never have this problem again.

[Chungenile]

I have a similar problem but I can find Dial-up Networking or WINDOWS SETUP in the control panel options. I dont see any tabs after add remove programs. There are 4 options along the left side but none of them say windows setup. When I go to control panel I dont see Dial up networking either. Any suggestions?

[Chungenile]

Nevermind I was browsing around and I got it stop. I went to START, CONNECT TO, SHOW ALL CONNECTIONS. Then I saw something that said "incomming (something)" under NETWORK CONNECTIONS. I deleted it and it solve my problem. Don't know what happen but at least it worked.

[sameh1512]

thank u my friend