On 2/21/12 3:09 PM, XP Guy wrote:
I've got XP installed on a motherboard with 2 ethernet ports.

There is an icon in the system tray for each one. When either of them
(or both of them) is not connected to the network, their respective icon
is shown with a red X across it.

What I want is - to NOT see the icon corresponding to the disconnected
port.

I want it to completely disappear. To not be present in the system
tray.

So if both of them are not connected, then NO ethernet icon shows up in
the tray. If one of them is connected, then I will see it's icon in the
tray (without the red X).

There seem to be only two settings that govern the behavior of the
network tray-icon:

- Show icon in notification area when connected
- Notify me when this connection has limited or no connectivity

So you would think that simply enabling the first one, and NOT enabling
the second one would do what I want.

But no. I still see the icon with a red X when the cable is not plugged
in.

Why doesn't disabling the second setting result in making that icon
disappear?

How can I make the network icon disappear when it's not connected?

My configuration has two PCs (both Windows XP SP3 Home) connected to a
router that then connects to a cable modem. When I disable the
connection from one of the PCs, the network icon disappears in the same
way that disconnecting through a dial-up modem would make the icon
disappear. The other PC remains connected through the router and modem
to the Internet; it still shows the icon. When I later enable the
connection to the router for the disabled PC, the icon re-appears there.

On the Network Connections window, enabling and disabling the connection
is through "Local Area Connection" under "LAN or High-Speed Internet",
not through "Broadband Connection" under "Broadband".

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