Connection icon malfunction

[Barrie]

Since the latest Vista upgrade, my connection icon in the notification area
shows a red X regardless of whether it is connected or not. Also the right
click options list appears but does not respond. Communications themselves
seem OK. What is the treatment for this ailment (other than take two
aspirins etc. )

 

[Barrie]

Yes. I am very familiar with that option but I look on it as a form of bail
out. One would be giving up the upgrade in favor of better cosmetics - the
connection is functioning! What do you think?

 

[DDW]

Yes. I am very familiar with that option but I look on it as a form of bail
out. One would be giving up the upgrade in favor of better cosmetics - the
connection is functioning! What do you think?

What if it wasn't the upgrade, and it was something else? No harm in
trying, except that NOW you'll know because you'll have to reinstall
the upgrade after using System Restore.

DDW

 

[Barrie]

I have actually been this route once. Needless to say, Windows then wanted
to install the upgrade and so I had two choices: ignore upgrades or accept a
cosmetic inconvenience. I chose the latter but would still like to fix it.

 

[Peter Foldes]

Barrie

Go to Control Panel then Network Connection and select your LAC (local area connection) and right click on it and select Properties.
On the Authentication Tab do you have a checkmark in Enable IEEE 802.1x authentication for this network. If not then put a check mark to it.
If it is already checked then on the General Tab where it say's Connect using there is a configure button. Use that .
When done then make sure you put checkmarks to the two boxes at the bottom of the page.

Let us know how you made out

 

[Barrie]

Peter, that sounds like the correct direction to go. Unfortunately, I cannot
get at the Network Connections (Network and Sharing Center in Vista)
information. When the Window eventually opens it says that it cannot find
the server. Meantime, I can connect to the Internet (as evidenced by this)
as can my wife who is on the web from her laptop through a wireless router
connected to my modem. I am reluctant to go the Restore route as I will
still be faced with the problem later if this is the consequence of the
latest upgrade (it seems like cause and effect).

 

[Peter Foldes]

Barrie

Give me until the morning . I need to get to a Vista machine at the shop and I will see how it is possible to rebuild that socket

 

[Barrie]

Great, and thank you!

Barrie

Give me until the morning . I need to get to a Vista machine at the shop and I will see how it is possible to rebuild that socket

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[Peter Foldes]

Barrie

Just for the heck of it . Try the below. But I will still get back to you in the morning

Right click the Start Button and select Properties then on the
taskbar and Start Menu Properties Under Taskbar Tab click on Customize Button
opposite this:
[ ] Hide inactive icons [ Customize...]
There Highlight the Local Area Network Icon and select from the drop down
list Always Show.

Or try and make sure the UPnP service is started in the services control
panel:
Open a run command and type in:
services.msc click [OK] locate the UPnP and start it Auto.
Reboot your machine.

 

[Frank]

Since the latest Vista upgrade, my connection icon in the notification area
shows a red X regardless of whether it is connected or not. Also the right
click options list appears but does not respond. Communications themselves
seem OK. What is the treatment for this ailment (other than take two
aspirins etc. )

You may have two network cards, one as a part of your mobo, the other an
add-in PCI card and the icon is showing the disabled one that is not in
use.

 

[Barrie]

You are absolutely right. I have a motherboard with an unattached network
connection and an ethernet card to which my cable modem is attached through
the router. It seems logical that there would be an icon for the
non-connected motherboard one. On the other hand, there is now no icon for
the ethernet card. The puzzling thing is why this should have happened at
this moment. I assume it is something to do with the latest Vista upgrade
and it is only now that I realize how often I look at that icon in the
ordinary course of things; this situation is very off-putting.

 

[Alias]

You are absolutely right. I have a motherboard with an unattached network
connection and an ethernet card to which my cable modem is attached through
the router. It seems logical that there would be an icon for the
non-connected motherboard one. On the other hand, there is now no icon for
the ethernet card. The puzzling thing is why this should have happened at
this moment. I assume it is something to do with the latest Vista upgrade
and it is only now that I realize how often I look at that icon in the
ordinary course of things; this situation is very off-putting.

Your BIOS may have gotten reset. You can have the real Internet
connection icon appear by going to your network settings and enabling it
again. You need to go into the BIOS and reset everything the way it
should be. If you don't know how to do that, take it to someone who does.

Alias

 

[Barrie]

Yes, that sounds like the way to go. I am used to adjusting the BIOS so will
have a look at it. What a pain in the butt! I build my own computers but am
getting a little long in the tooth to keep doing that. Increasingly I wonder
about jumping ship to a MAC but am so invested in software that I hesitate.
Admittedly one could run two OS's on today's MACs but then one would be back
in the Vista mess.

 

[Barrie]

It turns out that I lied. I was thinking of a previous computer build. My
router and cable modem are attached to the motherboard. Disabling the LAN
connection settings in the BIOS therefore leaves me without a connection.
So.... I am still left with trying to find out how to fix the notification
icon that incorrectlys hows that I am not connected.