Re: DSL connection - 'TV windows' have disappeared

From: Xylophone (m-rharrison_at_tiscali.co.uk)
Date: 01/13/05 

Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2005 19:12:19 -0000

Thanks, Frank. You have helped me successfully a number of times in the
past.

When I click on Start/Settings/Network Connections/Internet ADSL and then
click on Properties, show icon in system tray is already ticked (but no icon
in tray).

What next?

"Frank Saunders, MS-MVP IE/OE" <franksaunders@mvps.org> wrote in message
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> "Xylophone" <m-rharrison@tiscali.co.uk> wrote in message
> news:u9ujYAY%23EHA.2076@TK2MSFTNGP15.phx.gbl
> > I have Windows XP Home and use IE6 and OE6 and DSL broadband and
> > Outpost freebie firewall. My problem is that the two 'TV windows' in
> > the taskbar, showing I am connected, were there, but are no longer
> > there, and I would like to know why.
> >
> > Immediately prior to this problem manifesting itself, my most recent
> > activity on my Dell PC that might impact on the problem was as
> > follows:
> >
> > 1. Via Windows Update I chose to install Microsoft's Free
> > AntiSpyware Beta, partly as it is recommended by Fred Langa for use
> > in conjunction with the other spyware programs I use: principally
> > Ad-Aware (freebie), Spybot, SpywareBlaster, SpywareGuard.
> >
> > 2. Via TweakXP.com, I deleted the most irritating 'A network
> > cable is unplugged' icon from the taskbar, by deleting the registry
> > key they referred to, being:
> >
> > HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{7007ACCF-3202-11D1-AAD2-00805FC1270E}
> >
> > and restarting the PC. I failed, however, to backup the key. After
> > restarting, the icon (two 'TV windows' with a red x between them had
> > gone, but, I eventually noticed, so had, my DSLMon 'TV windows'.
> >
> > I suspect No 2, above, has had a hand in their disappearance, but as
> > No 1 is also a possibility, that is why I have posted in this NG (if
> > that is not relevant, I have also posted in the IE6 NG, as I cannot
> > think of where else to do so re connecting to the internet). In this
> > case, restoring the key should have been a straightforward and not a
> > dangerous procedure. But I have no backup to merge. I could create
> > a new key, as per the above at 2, in Regedit.exe, but thereafter I
> > haven't a clue.
> >
> > Advice/solutions?
>
> Start | Connect To
> Right click the connectoid and choose Properties. There should be a box
to
> show icon in the notification area.
>
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