Network Icons in Taskbar Now Working Properly

[Peter Curach]

Hi Guys.
I have a problem I have ever encountered before regarding the network icons
in the taskbar. Running WinXP SP1 upto date all updates from Windows Update
on Dell Precision M60 workstation laptop.

They are not behaving properly. They do not correctly indicate the
connection status. I have 2 icons - one for local area connection and one
for wireless connection. I usually use wireless connection at home and local
area connection at work. When I boot/restart the computer, the icons read
correctly, but if I then disconnect the UTP cable, the icon still shows it
connected. If I do an IPCONFIG however, the WinXP knows that media is
discnnection. Same goes for the wireless connection if I stop the radio.

I have search through some of the Microsoft Knowledge Databases and found
nothing directly dealing with this issue. I have disocvered some similar
issues (Microsoft Knowledge base Article 825826) and did discover that COM+
was not interacting with the desktop and fix that, but still no fix. I did
stop and restart the service with the problem still there.

I have deleted the NIC's and the restarted WinXP and this does not solve the
problem
What is even more strange is that when I turn off the icon for "Show icon in
notification area when connected" for the relevant network adaptor, the icon
remains.

Any help guys please ?
This is really peeving me of

Thanks

Peter

 

[Guest]

Hi Peter,
I've had the same problem on Dell Laptops,,,and it usually turns out be the network support, or LAN support in the bios is dissabled. Windows seems to still be able to start up the cards, but things don't work correctly, hopes this helps.

 

[Peter Curach]

Thanks SpeedA18.
I just un-installed my Dell TrueMobile 1300 802.11b+g and now the local
area network connection icon works perfectly. I am just re-downloading the
lastest driver for the Dell TrueMobile 1300 802.11b+g (v3.40.69 = A03) and
maybe we will see some results.

Peeves me off as I have spent so far about 5 hours on it !!!

Peter Curach

Hi Peter,,
I've had the same problem on Dell Laptops,,,and it usually turns out be

the network support, or LAN support in the bios is dissabled. Windows seems
to still be able to start up the cards, but things don't work correctly,
hopes this helps.