Keep It Alive - Keeps your diap-up Internet connection alive
Version 1.2 FREEWARE
Copyright 1998 Peili Chen

Do you have a home computer connected to the Internet via dial-up
networking?
Have you ever been disconnected by your ISP while you were online but not
active for 10 or 15 minutes?

If your answer is yes, you might find this program useful.

It is a fact that many ISPs disconnect their clients dial-up connections if
they are not active for a certain period of time. Keep It Alive keeps your
dial-up connection alive by trying to get a web page from a web site in a
time interval you can specify.
                             
Features

   * It will detect whether you are online or not if you use Windows
     Dial-up Networking. Once you are online it will automatically start
     taking its "keeping alive" actions - connecting to a web site every
     several minutes, and stop actions when you disconnect.
   * When you start the program it will hide into a small icon in the
     Windows system tray and does its keeping alive job in the
     background or waiting there for your dial-up connection.
   * Point your mouse to the tray icon, you will see your connection
     status.
   * Left click your mouse on the icon, a main windows will show, allows
     you to reset the web site address, time interval, etc. and see the
     connection status.
   * Right click your mouse on the icon, a popup menu will show which gives
     you the choices to show the main windows, read information about this
     program, or exit the program.
   * If you prefer, it can have a sound notification when taking actions.
   * You can launch the program before or after you have started your
     dial-up connection. It uses very little of your computer CPU time.

Installation

   * The program is a Win32 application and will only work under Windows
     95/98 or NT but not in Windows 3.1.
   * Unzip and run K12setup.exe to install. 
   * You should choose a popular web site which is usually quick and never
     offline (such as an Internet search engine or your ISP home site), you
     may just use the default setting.
   * For people who use a third-party dial-up program (AOL), you can choose
     to start and stop keeping alive actions manually.
   * To uninstall, use Add/Remove Programs in Control Panel.

What's new
Version 1.2
Improved install/uninstall programs

Please send any comments to peili_c@geocities.com

Home page of Keep It Alive: 
http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Garage/7334/Kpalive.html
