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Hi
Wondered if you could help.
I have a WinXP Home PC running SP1, Outlook Express, IE and that's about it.
I have a wireless card and a standard 56K dial-up modem in it.
The wireless card connects to a D-LINK 4 Ethernet port + wireless
router/modem that is acting as a simple LAN at the moment because my
broadband is coming through in a bit.
I currently use the 56K dial-up to the Internet and for the last 12 months
when I did use this to connect it would put the 2 tele icon in the system
tray when I was connected. My wife has used this PC for the last couple of
weeks and has pointed out to me that the 2 tele icon doesn't show in the
system tray anymore so she doesn't know if and when it has disconnected
properly.
At the moment I'm having to get her to go the Network Connections window,
right-click on the dial-up and left-click to disconnect (this also has an
annoying habit of not showing the disconnect until you press the F5 refresh
key, which she didn't know about), but I shouldn't have to do this.
Can you tell me how I can get the icon to reappear in the system tray?
PLEASE NOTE:
a) The 'Show Connection' checkbox IS TICKED in the properties of this
dial-up.
b) I have deleted the dial-up and re-created it with the checkbox still
ticked, but had no joy.
c) I DO NOT have the hide inactive icons checkbox selected.
d) I have tried the lock and unlock taskbar suggestion and this makes no
difference.
e) My Network connections window consists of:
A dial-up connection, firewalled.
A wireless connection, active when not using modem, active, but with a red
cross when using modem.
A local connection greyed out.
A 1394 connection active, but doesn't appear to do anything - do I need
this?
Please help.
Thanks
Rob
Wondered if you could help.
I have a WinXP Home PC running SP1, Outlook Express, IE and that's about it.
I have a wireless card and a standard 56K dial-up modem in it.
The wireless card connects to a D-LINK 4 Ethernet port + wireless
router/modem that is acting as a simple LAN at the moment because my
broadband is coming through in a bit.
I currently use the 56K dial-up to the Internet and for the last 12 months
when I did use this to connect it would put the 2 tele icon in the system
tray when I was connected. My wife has used this PC for the last couple of
weeks and has pointed out to me that the 2 tele icon doesn't show in the
system tray anymore so she doesn't know if and when it has disconnected
properly.
At the moment I'm having to get her to go the Network Connections window,
right-click on the dial-up and left-click to disconnect (this also has an
annoying habit of not showing the disconnect until you press the F5 refresh
key, which she didn't know about), but I shouldn't have to do this.
Can you tell me how I can get the icon to reappear in the system tray?
PLEASE NOTE:
a) The 'Show Connection' checkbox IS TICKED in the properties of this
dial-up.
b) I have deleted the dial-up and re-created it with the checkbox still
ticked, but had no joy.
c) I DO NOT have the hide inactive icons checkbox selected.
d) I have tried the lock and unlock taskbar suggestion and this makes no
difference.
e) My Network connections window consists of:
A dial-up connection, firewalled.
A wireless connection, active when not using modem, active, but with a red
cross when using modem.
A local connection greyed out.
A 1394 connection active, but doesn't appear to do anything - do I need
this?
Please help.
Thanks
Rob
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