HOWTO: Disable Initial RAS Wizard for Phonebook Extensions

• Microsoft Remote Access Service for Windows 95

SUMMARY

By using Remote Access Service (RAS) phonebook extensions, it is possible to programmatically create phonebook entries for Windows 95's dial-up networking applet. However, these APIs do not allow you to disable the automatic Windows 95 phonebook Entry Wizard. If you do not want Windows 95 to invoke the Connection Wizard to create the first phonebook entry, your application must modify the registry.

MORE INFORMATION

On a fresh installation of Windows 95 with Dial-Up Networking installed, the RAS phonebook has no entries. When a user opens the Dial-Up Networking applet for the first time, a Wizard appears, instructing the user to create the first phonebook entry "My Connection." The Wizard appears even if another application already created the first phonebook entry.

To disable the initial Connection Wizard on Windows 95 manually, you can run REGEDIT.EXE and set HKEY_CURRENT_USER\RemoteAccess\Wizard to the following series of bytes: 80 00 00 00.

The code below shows how to disable the Dial-Up Networking Connection Wizard programmatically. However, these registry modifications only apply to Windows 95. Your application must determine the operating system you are running on. All other versions of Windows and Windows NT, both current and future, will not support this registry entry. For more information on version checking, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

Q92395 Determining System Version from a Win32-based Application

Sample Code

   #include <windows.h>
   #include <stdio.h>

   void main (void)
       {
       LONG rc;
       HKEY hKey;
       DWORD dwVal;

       printf ("Setting HKEY_CURRENT_USER\\RemoteAccess\\Wizard to"
               " 0x00000080.\n This will stop the wizard from appearing "
              "when the dial-up\nnetworking applet is opened.\n");

       // 
       // Open the registry key
       // 
       rc = RegOpenKeyEx (HKEY_CURRENT_USER, "RemoteAccess",
                          0, KEY_SET_VALUE, &hKey);

       if (rc != ERROR_SUCCESS)
           {
           printf ("RegOpenKeyEx failed with return code %i\n", rc);
           return;
           }

       // 
       // Modify the key
       // 
       dwVal = 0x00000080;
       rc = RegSetValueEx (hKey, "wizard", 0, REG_BINARY,
                           (LPVOID) &dwVal, sizeof (dwVal));

       if (rc != ERROR_SUCCESS)
           printf ("RegSetValueEx failed with return code %i\n", rc);

       // 
       // Cleanup
       // 
       RegCloseKey (hKey);
       } 

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