Read the "2002 Civic Heater/AC functionality" thread. It will tell you
where you might find directions on how to turn off that feature.

Forest wrote:
>
> Jees, I'm tired of the AC coming on every time I turn the knob to de-frost!
> Have a 2000 Civic DX here and I can't understand why that's set-up that way?
> Doesn't Honda realize I am quite capable of determining when I want the
> compressor to run?
>
> Anyway to change that?
>
> Thanks