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I want Network icon in the system tray to disappear when notconnected- how?
On 2/22/12 7:30 PM, XP Guy wrote:
"David E. Ross" wrote: My configuration has two PCs (...) David, please tell me what is supposed to happen when this setting is NOT enabled: - Notify me when this connection has limited or no connectivity I generally have the checkbox checked. I unchecked it and disabled my connection. The icon disappeared just as it does when the checkbox is checked. Note that I have not tried physically disconnecting my PC from the router or physically disconnecting the router from the cable modem. All disabiling has been via software. -- David E. Ross http://www.rossde.com/ Concerned about someone (e.g., the government) snooping into your E-mail? Use PGP. See my http://www.rossde.com/PGP/ |
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I want Network icon in the system tray to disappear when notconnected- how?
"David E. Ross" wrote:
David, please tell me what is supposed to happen when this setting is NOT enabled: - Notify me when this connection has limited or no connectivity I unchecked it and disabled my connection. What do you mean - "disabled my connection". Note that I have not tried physically disconnecting my PC from the router (slaps forehead) What exactly do you think is the more typical use-case? Someone "disabling" their connection, or Someone unplugging their connection? |
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I want Network icon in the system tray to disappear when notconnected- how?
On 2/23/12 6:01 PM, XP Guy wrote:
"David E. Ross" wrote: David, please tell me what is supposed to happen when this setting is NOT enabled: - Notify me when this connection has limited or no connectivity I unchecked it and disabled my connection. What do you mean - "disabled my connection". Note that I have not tried physically disconnecting my PC from the router (slaps forehead) What exactly do you think is the more typical use-case? Someone "disabling" their connection, or Someone unplugging their connection? To disable my connection, I can either right-click on the icon in the Windows tray and select Disable from the pull-down context menu or else I can go to [Start Settings Network Connections], right-click on Local Area Connection, and select Disable from the pull-down context menu. To physically disconnect, I can either get down on my knees and pull my PC tower out of its cubby in my computer desk (carefully since some of the cables are rather short) and disconnect the cable to my router or else do a do-se-do with my printer so that I can open the door to the attic storage space behind it and disconnect the cable at the router. (Both the router and cable modem are in the attic.) Both are a real bother, and I never physically disconnect unless I am having a hardware problem. I think the last time I physically disconnected was last summer, when my router failed and I had to install a new router. I frequently disable the connection (software disconnect) for various reasons: * For new software versions, I download the installer file and then disconnect so that, while I log the installation, no extraneous Internet activity appears in the log. * Some Web sites have very large files that are compressed. A bug in my browser fails to accept all the Internet packets and decompress them. This is a timing-related problem that seems to occur only while having a broadband connection. I disable my connection to my router and use a dial-up modem to get such Web pages. (My dial-up and broadband services are through two different ISPs.) * When I cannot access a Web page at all but http://www.isup.me/ says the Web site is not down, I again resort to a dial-up connection, which requires first disabling my broadband connection. -- David E. Ross http://www.rossde.com/ Concerned about someone (e.g., the government) snooping into your E-mail? Use PGP. See my http://www.rossde.com/PGP/ |
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