Vista and AOL try connection icon.

[kraut]

Wife has a new Vista box which she runs AOL on.

Question is whether there is anyway to put an connection icon in the
tray that show when connected or activity going on (Sending /
receiving) like I have for my DSL connection on my XP box??

TIA

 

[kraut]

Right-click Start orb > Properties > Notification Area > Select the Network box and OK out.
When the icon appears at bottom right, right-click it to turn activity animation on/off.

Right-click Start orb >

Is this right or a mispelling?!?!?

Am on my XP box right now so can not check it for correctness.

TIA

 

[Gene E. Bloch]

Right-click Start orb >

Is this right or a mispelling?!?!?

Am on my XP box right now so can not check it for correctness.

TIA

The start orb is a blue sphere-like object with a Microsoft flag in it. It
is on the lower left corner of your wife's screen if she hasn't moved the
task bar.

 

[kraut]

Ok, right-click the round Start button, the one that used to be rectangular in XP.

OK Sorry. Got you now.

It is a B---- trying to learn my XP and the wife's Vista after all
these years on 98. People in XP group and here will probably get
tired of seeing my name after a while. Maybe I better go buy
instruction manuals for both!!

Thanks again all

 

[Jim]

OK Sorry. Got you now.

It is a B---- trying to learn my XP and the wife's Vista after all
these years on 98. People in XP group and here will probably get
tired of seeing my name after a while. Maybe I better go buy
instruction manuals for both!!

Thanks again all

Manual(s) in PDF form on the harddrive ?

 

[Gene E. Bloch]

OK Sorry. Got you now.

It is a B---- trying to learn my XP and the wife's Vista after all
these years on 98. People in XP group and here will probably get
tired of seeing my name after a while. Maybe I better go buy
instruction manuals for both!!

Thanks again all

OTOH, I bought a couple of books on Vista from a respected publisher, and
found that I'm learning more on this NG and via Windows help and - of
course - Google. Most of the problems I've had were not covered in the
books. A bummer.

Having said that, though, just reading the books had two beneficial
effects:
1. They did get me started in the more general aspects of the system.
2. Marvelously effective cure for insomnia.

The books were "Windows Vista - The Missing Manual" and "Windows vista in a
Nutshell", both from O'Reilly Press.

The first one was the one that gave me the useful overview. I bought the
other hoping to use it as a reference manual for the trickier problems.