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I'll try to make this short asp, last Sept I changed Insurance agencies and our IT guy (yea, we pay him $90 an hour, btw-I'm not impressed) hooked my Laptop up with a VPN so I can access our company files and programs through it remotedly (I office out of my house but realistcly do not use the VPN much, less than 5% of my useage), before that I use my computer alot (searching for parts, PY, Ta Country, Ebay, ect.) with no issues and never had a "Dial up box appear", "connect to the internet", and the "VPN box popping up wanting me to connect to the VPN when I'm not using the VPN (sometimes all 3 at the same time, others just one) quite a bit when I go to a website, never experience these issues prior and he summized it was my outdated HP, I recently purchase a fairly decent Campaq and went a month or so with no issues, then he installed the VPN connection and its doing it again, I am not using the VPN but when I connect to say PY (even though my two computer Icon in the corner says I have connection, both local and public), sometimes I can not connect to my website at all, BTW-I found that the work offline sometime when I've having the issuesand sometimes fixes it, why does this all of the sudden get checked?) I'll unmark it but few minutes lates when it says it can't connect again (keep in mind, I'm not trying to get on the VPN) the work offline is checked again. There's gotta be a solution to this, the guy we pay $90 and hour can't help me, anybody else have any siggestion, I'm not smart enough to figure out what is is but am figuring its a set up issue not marked correctly or not installed correctly.
I know its kinda technical, or maybe not, could be a simple setting. Thought I'd see if any knew about this or had any experience with this and could help. Thx for reading the long post, I've aske alot of pepole that can't fdigure out, its a hassle though!