Where's the Broadband connection icon?

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John Smith

Probably the wrong place to ask, but...
Friend has broadband but can't see an icon in the task bar where he can view
the connection speed, bytes sent and received etc...the little double,
overlapping screen icon.
He has ticked the box - Control Panel/Network Connections/Right
click/Properties and tick the box next to Show icon in notification area
when connected.
Anyone suggest anything?
Its Telewest 256Kbps Broadband and he has Windows XP if that is significant.
Thanks.
 
Probably the wrong place to ask, but...
Friend has broadband but can't see an icon in the task bar where he can view
the connection speed, bytes sent and received etc...the little double,
overlapping screen icon.
He has ticked the box - Control Panel/Network Connections/Right
click/Properties and tick the box next to Show icon in notification area
when connected.
Anyone suggest anything?
Its Telewest 256Kbps Broadband and he has Windows XP if that is significant.
Thanks.
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John,

Does he have "Hide inactive icons" enabled in Taskbar Properties?

Cheers,
Chuck
Paranoia comes from experience - and is not necessarily a bad thing.
 
Chuck said:
John,

Does he have "Hide inactive icons" enabled in Taskbar Properties?

Cheers,
Chuck
Paranoia comes from experience - and is not necessarily a bad thing.
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Probably the wrong place to ask, but...
Friend has broadband but can't see an icon in the task bar where he can view
the connection speed, bytes sent and received etc...the little double,
overlapping screen icon.
He has ticked the box - Control Panel/Network Connections/Right
click/Properties and tick the box next to Show icon in notification area
when connected.
Anyone suggest anything?
Its Telewest 256Kbps Broadband and he has Windows XP if that is significant.
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John,

when he unchecks the show icon box, clicks on OK, then calls it
up, checks it, and again clicks OK, does the icon then show up?

If it does, have a look at
http://www.michna.com/kb/WxSystray.htm.

Hans-Georg
 
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