System tray Icon missing

[Charles W.]

For some reason my "Internet Connected" icon no longer appears in the system
tray at the lower right side. All the other icons are there except this one
which was working fine up to now. How can I restore this icon?

 

[Plato]

For some reason my "Internet Connected" icon no longer appears in the system
tray at the lower right side. All the other icons are there except this one
which was working fine up to now. How can I restore this icon?

No problem.

 

[Elmo]

For some reason my "Internet Connected" icon no longer appears in the system
tray at the lower right side. All the other icons are there except this one
which was working fine up to now. How can I restore this icon?

Click Start, Settings, Network Connections, (or Start, Connect To, "Show
all Connections"). Right-click the connection, click Properties, click
"Show icon in notification area when connected", OK out. If it's
selected, deselect, apply or OK out, reenter, and select it again.

 

[Charles W.]

No problem.

Yes the internet connection still works so in that sense there is "no
problem" but previous to yesterday there was always an icon showing an
internet connection with the elapsed time showing. I just changed routers
yesterday so I am wondering if that did something??

 

[Charles W.]

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Don't know of a Windows-supplied tray icon that says "Internet
Connected". Even when you enable the tray icon for the LAN connectoid
in the Network applet in Control Panel, it doesn't say that. So either
what you said it said is wrong or you'll have to figure out what 3rd
party software you installed that provided a tray icon option (that is
now disabled).
Vanguard,

Is it possible that you do not know everything?

 

[Charles W.]

Click Start, Settings, Network Connections, (or Start, Connect To, "Show
all Connections"). Right-click the connection, click Properties, click
"Show icon in notification area when connected", OK out. If it's
selected, deselect, apply or OK out, reenter, and select it again.

That did not work but the "local Area Connection" is showing but not the
other icon showing the internet connection. It may be related to a new router
I set up yesterday but not sure why.

 

[Alias]

Yes the internet connection still works so in that sense there is "no
problem" but previous to yesterday there was always an icon showing an
internet connection with the elapsed time showing. I just changed routers
yesterday so I am wondering if that did something??

No, it's a normal XP glitch. Go to Network Connections, disable it and
enable it again and you should be good for a couple of months ;-)

Alias

 

[Charles W.]

No, it's a normal XP glitch. Go to Network Connections, disable it and
enable it again and you should be good for a couple of months ;-)

Alias
Alias,

That did not work because the connection does not appear in network
connections. Local Area Connection is there but not internet connection

 

[Alias]

That did not work because the connection does not appear in network
connections. Local Area Connection is there but not internet connection

Right click on Local Area Connection/Properties/General tab and you'll
see it.

Alias

 

[Unknown]

For what its worth I get the Local Area Connection icon and do not get and
never have gotten the Internet Connection icon
since installing the local area network..