How do you REMOVE a shared ICS icon from Network Connection ??

[Tommo]

Hello,
I want to remove an icon from my network connections, the icon
is for sharing an internet connection, it comes under a header
"Internet Gateway". I think I selcted enable ICS when configuring my
local lan. The problem is I do not want to share my connection but how
do I remove this. I cannot see anywhere in posts or xp help where it
details how to remove this, there is plenty of info on how to enable
it.

thanks, Mark ..

 

[Interrogative]

Hello,
I want to remove an icon from my network connections, the icon
is for sharing an internet connection, it comes under a header
"Internet Gateway". I think I selcted enable ICS when configuring my
local lan. The problem is I do not want to share my connection but how
do I remove this. I cannot see anywhere in posts or xp help where it
details how to remove this, there is plenty of info on how to enable
it.

thanks, Mark ..

Start button, Control Panel, Network Connections. Look for the shared
Internet connection (it will be marked as SHARED). Right click on it,
Properties, Advanced tab. Take tick off "Allow other computers to connect
through this computer's Internet Connection" then OK it. If you have already
connected to Internet before doing this, you have to hang up from it and
reconnect before it fully takes effect.

 

[Alex Nichol]

I want to remove an icon from my network connections, the icon
is for sharing an internet connection, it comes under a header
"Internet Gateway". I think I selcted enable ICS when configuring my
local lan. The problem is I do not want to share my connection but how
do I remove this. I cannot see anywhere in posts or xp help where it
details how to remove this, there is plenty of info on how to enable
it.

This is normally done on the Icon there for the connection that goes to
the Internet; r-click - Properties and there is a check box on the
Advanced page

 

[Ken Wickes [MSFT]]

Start button, Control Panel, Network Connections. Look for the shared
Internet connection (it will be marked as SHARED). Right click on it,
Properties, Advanced tab. Take tick off "Allow other computers to connect
through this computer's Internet Connection" then OK it. If you have
already connected to Internet before doing this, you have to hang up from
it and reconnect before it fully takes effect.

The fact that it says "Internet Gateway" probably means it is coming from a
home router. ICS gives a more descriptive name by default.

Still if you want to remove it from the client, uncheck "Internet Gateway
Discovery & Control Client" in optional components.

 

[Tommo]

The fact that it says "Internet Gateway" probably means it is coming from a
home router. ICS gives a more descriptive name by default.

Still if you want to remove it from the client, uncheck "Internet Gateway
Discovery & Control Client" in optional components.

It did not appear as a shared connection in Network Connections so
reply 1 was not of relevance, as for the 2nd reply this may have
worked. I had in the meantime disabled Windows ICS from windows
services, this removed the icon.
The reason I posed this question was because I was having some
strange problems with my DSL router connectivity whilst I had ICS
enabled. Every now and then my IE browser would not work, kept getting
"page cannot be displayed" errors even though from a DOS prompt I
could ping the site. I read in a few threads similar problems which
may have been caused by ICS enabled. Since I stopped ICS the problem
appears to have gone, but I am not entirely sure yet !!!

 

[Interrogative]

The fact that it says "Internet Gateway" probably means it is coming from
a home router. ICS gives a more descriptive name by default.

Nope, not always. XP on my laptop with discovery on and ICS shows "Internet
Gateway" and has on other networks I have seen it on. Of course, if you
rename your Gateway icon, it can say anything you like.

 

[Ken Wickes [MSFT]]

Nope, not always. XP on my laptop with discovery on and ICS shows
"Internet Gateway" and has on other networks I have seen it on. Of course,
if you rename your Gateway icon, it can say anything you like.

A machine running ICS shouldn't show the icon at all, at least not for it's
own shared connection, it may still see an upstream router. Clients of a
Windows XP ICS Host should see it called something like "Local Area
Connection on MACHINENAME".

 

[Interrogative]

A machine running ICS shouldn't show the icon at all, at least not for
it's

Where do you get that from? Of course they should with discovery on! Always
have on XP since it came out. You can turn discovery off and show nothing
but with it on there it is.

own shared connection, it may still see an upstream router. Clients of a
Windows XP ICS Host should see it called something like "Local Area
Connection on MACHINENAME".

No, not necessarily, once more. You can name the connection anything you
like. Try it.

 

[Ken Wickes [MSFT]]

Where do you get that from? Of course they should with discovery on!
Always have on XP since it came out. You can turn discovery off and show
nothing but with it on there it is.


No, not necessarily, once more. You can name the connection anything you
like. Try it.

A machine will not show it's own shared connection using the Internet
Gateway Discovery and Control Client. Of course you will still see the
regular Local Area Connection icon. We went to a lot of trouble to make it
this way, otherwise you get two icons.

You can name it anything you want but the default name will be
%connectionname% on %icshostname%. If you delete the regkey where the
custom name is stored you will see that again. The ability to get the
connection name and machine name was an extension to the UPnP Internet
Gateway Device spec that we made for WinXP. If you are connected to a
non-XP IGD, then "Intenet Gateway" is the default name. That said, I know
some 3rd party vendors reverse engineered the extensions that we made so
they may have their own custom names as well.

 

[Interrogative]

A machine will not show it's own shared connection using the Internet
Gateway Discovery and Control Client. Of course you will still see the
regular Local Area Connection icon. We went to a lot of trouble to make
it this way, otherwise you get two icons.

Whatever you like. I have it working on numerous networks that way but you
say it cant be done. Whatever.