Switching Users And Keeping RAS Connected

Carey Holzman | Contributing Writer
2003-06-10

Question: While switching users in XP I lose my Internet connection. A popup window used to asked if I wanted to stay connected, but now this window does not appear. Is there some way I can have the RAS stay connected?

Thanks,
Sam

Carey's Answer:

Hi Sam,

You will need to edit your registry to resolve this problem.

Click Start, click Run and type REGEDIT and hit Enter (or click OK)

Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE SOFTWARE Microsoft Windows NT CurrentVersion Winlogon

Right-click an empty space in the right-hand pane, and from the menu

Select New > String value

Name the new value KeepRASConnections (it's important that you use upper and lower-case letters exactly as shown)

Right-click the KeepRASConnections value, and choose Modify from the menu

Enter 1 as the Value data

Close the registry editor

Restart Windows for the changes to take effect.

Hope this helps! Thanks for writing,

Carey

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