System Tray Network Icon Disappeared

Posted: 11-16-2008, 10:28 PM

John McGaw

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I've just bought my first Vista computer. You will probably be seeing a lot
of me around here until I figure out the myriad ways it differs from XP and
previous Windows version.

The first problem I present is: the network icon which used to appear in
the system tray has disappeared. It used to, on mouse click offer a choice
of animation etc. I did not, at least intentionally, turn it off. I'd
really like to get it back and to understand where/why it went. Help search
does nothing but aggravate with circularly linked non-answers.

System is a new HP notebook DV4-1123US with Vista Home Premium x64 sp 1,
4gb memory, etc.

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John McGaw

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Re: System Tray Network Icon Disappeared

Posted: 11-16-2008, 10:47 PM

John McGaw wrote:

> I've just bought my first Vista computer. You will probably be seeing a
> lot of me around here until I figure out the myriad ways it differs from
> XP and previous Windows version.
>
> The first problem I present is: the network icon which used to appear in
> the system tray has disappeared. It used to, on mouse click offer a
> choice of animation etc. I did not, at least intentionally, turn it
> off. I'd really like to get it back and to understand where/why it went.
> Help search does nothing but aggravate with circularly linked non-answers.
>
> System is a new HP notebook DV4-1123US with Vista Home Premium x64 sp 1,
> 4gb memory, etc.
>
> --
> John McGaw
> http://johnmcgaw.com

OK, bad form to answer one's own posts but I just wanted to say that I
found a fix at

http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/10...tem-icons.html

and used the "download" and merge method. Still doesn't tell me why the
icon disappeared in the first place. And it still doesn't say why I didn't
notice that the power and volume icons had vanished too. But it does tell
me that the transition to Vista isn't going to be easy since I found that I
didn't know how to run regedit or anything else. Sigh...

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John McGaw
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