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Is there a setting in Win XP home to disable my local area connection at shutdown? I manually disable my connection every night before shutting down my system, and manually re-enable it after startup. Not knowing much about the risks of an "always on" connection, I feel more secure having the connection disabled at night. Previously, I had a problem where my connection was actually turning on my computer in the middle of the night, but I have since remedied that problem.
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I thought that was case, until my computer started turning on by itself. It would happen only if I failed to disable my connection before powering off my computer. I finally cured that problem by locating, and disabling the "Wake on ARP/Ping" setting. Also, if I do not disable the connection before shutdown, when I restart my computer the connection is still enabled. Or is it automatically re-enabled? Either way, I would prefer to enable the connection myself if I have the option. I don't know where the setting is for that either.
No "Wake On Lan" listing that I can see. Not in network adapters, nor in BIOS settings.
If the PC is simply put to sleep or hybernate, it can be revived via software such as "Wake on LAN" or "Allow this device. . ." and such. If it's turned off, it's turned off. Zero power. Dead to the world.
I have cable internet, router, three PCs and a laptop. I turn them off when I'm done (except one of which is my website server).
Use the "Start, Turn off Computer, Turn off" buttons and you'll be safe.
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Some ethernet cards have a WOL cable. I'm not familiar with your computer so I can tell if you have such.
Bob
I doubt that I have a WOL cable since this is a basic system. It sounds like no such manual setting exists for "Disable connection at shutdown". I'm going to test my system to see if re-enabling the "Wake up on ARP/Ping", will again cause my computer to power on by itself. I'll post the result as soon as possible.
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