Turning off internet connection in Vista. How?

Hello,

I tried to google, but was unable to find any instructions that tell
someone how to disable the MS-Vista internet connection. I would like my
Vista machine to be able to access the other computers in the LAN only.
How can one do this? I am about to spend some quality time with my
router, to see if I can accomplish this via router settings. If anyone
has any suggestions on this, I would greatly appreciate them.

Perplexed,

John

This is something of a general problem, not confined to this lousy OS.

If ever your internet connection is broken you can't work because of
constant pestering by practically every application you have installed.

A user-friendly OS would detect the situation, and intercept attempted
updates, etc.

Regards


"John" <> a écrit dans le message de
news:...
> Hello,
>
> I tried to google, but was unable to find any instructions that tell
> someone how to disable the MS-Vista internet connection. I would like my
> Vista machine to be able to access the other computers in the LAN only.
> How can one do this? I am about to spend some quality time with my router,
> to see if I can accomplish this via router settings. If anyone has any
> suggestions on this, I would greatly appreciate them.
>
> Perplexed,
>
> John

"John" <> wrote in message
news:...
> Hello,
>
> I tried to google, but was unable to find any instructions that tell
> someone how to disable the MS-Vista internet connection. I would like my
> Vista machine to be able to access the other computers in the LAN only.
> How can one do this? I am about to spend some quality time with my router,
> to see if I can accomplish this via router settings. If anyone has any
> suggestions on this, I would greatly appreciate them.
>
> Perplexed,
>
> John


You could just change the default gateway to something other then your
router.

Vista User wrote:
> "John" <> wrote in message
> news:...
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I tried to google, but was unable to find any instructions that tell
>> someone how to disable the MS-Vista internet connection. I would like
>> my Vista machine to be able to access the other computers in the LAN
>> only. How can one do this? I am about to spend some quality time with
>> my router, to see if I can accomplish this via router settings. If
>> anyone has any suggestions on this, I would greatly appreciate them.
>>
>> Perplexed,
>>
>> John
>
>
>
> You could just change the default gateway to something other then your
> router.
Hi,

Thanks for the suggestion. I will try this, and then see if Vista can
still connect to the local area network. Thanks.

Cheers,

John

"John" <> wrote in message
news:...
> Hello,
>
> I tried to google, but was unable to find any instructions that tell
> someone how to disable the MS-Vista internet connection. I would like my
> Vista machine to be able to access the other computers in the LAN only.
> How can one do this? I am about to spend some quality time with my router,
> to see if I can accomplish this via router settings. If anyone has any
> suggestions on this, I would greatly appreciate them.
>
> Perplexed,
>
> John


Depends on your router... I've got a Linksys WRT54G and it has an Access
Restrictions | Internet Access facility that sounds exactly like what you're
looking for.

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