John Bartow
john at winhaven.net
Wed Oct 3 09:31:15 CDT 2007
Hi all, thanks for the suggestions. To be more specific, after having spent some time searching for an answer to this problem, let me describe it more thoroughly: I install/support/maintain a lot of PCs. If they get them balled up enough I bring them back to my office for a slumber party. I have to deal with PCs that have dial-up connections as the "boondocks" is about 3 miles west of here :o) When I'm working on dial-up PCs in my office they get stuff it a LAN that utilizes a high speed internet connection. I turn on the "show icon in notification area when connected" switch so that I know immediately if the PC has lost gained connection at any point throughout our little party. This is kind of handy since there may be quite a few of them at any one party - woo-who! Before I return the dial-up PCs I disconnect the LAN and re-establish dial-up networking - just to be sure - not many worse, well slow and boring, things to do than troubleshooting a dial-up connection on site. So I uncheck the "show icon in notification area when connected" and the "Notify me when this connection has limited or no connectivity" checkboxes under the LAN connection but it has no effect. The reason I would like to not have the icon there is because people get freaked out by the little icon with the red X through it. Hiding it is not good enough. So: this question is simply about removing the icon in the sys tray for wired connections it has nothing to do with the wireless networking - that's a whole mess on its own depending on service pack, phase of the moon, etc ;o) Right now my only solution, short of removing the NIC is to disable the LAN connection in network connections. That seems a bit excessive to me. My web searching skills have let me down on this issue. There just has to be a hack to make that little bugger go away! TIA John B.