Tray Icon for Network always showing a red X?

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  1. Posts : 13
    Windows 7 Home Premium x64
       #1

    Tray Icon for Network always showing a red X?


    Hello, I am new to SevenForums

    Anyway so up until the beginning of the month my networking tray icon was working fine, showing the bars that show for WiFi and stuff... but now it just shows the LAN connection icon with a red "X" on top of it...

    System Specs

    Windows 7 Home Premium x64 SP1
    6GB of RAM
    AMD E-350 Processor 1.60 GHz
    Attached Thumbnails Attached Thumbnails Tray Icon for Network always showing a red X?-capture.png  
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  2. Posts : 8,870
    Windows 7 Ult, Windows 8.1 Pro,
       #2

    Lets try flushing DNS cache and renewing your IP.

    Flush the DNS cache and restore MS's Hosts file ...
    Copy and paste these lines in Note pad.

    @Echo on
    pushd\windows\system32\drivers\etc
    attrib -h -s -r hosts
    echo 127.0.0.1 localhost>HOSTS
    attrib +r +h +s hosts
    popd
    ipconfig /release
    ipconfig /renew
    ipconfig /flushdns
    netsh winsock reset all
    netsh int ip reset all
    shutdown -r -t 1
    del %0

    Save as flush.bat to your desktop. Right click on the flush.bat file to run it as Administrator.

    Your computer will reboot itself.
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  3. Posts : 13
    Windows 7 Home Premium x64
    Thread Starter
       #3

    I tried this but it kind of didn't work...


    When Windows starts connecting to the network the icon will show properly but as soon as it's done it will just go back to the "X" this does half fix the issue

    here's the network connections control pannel thing screenie
    Attached Thumbnails Attached Thumbnails Tray Icon for Network always showing a red X?-capture1.png  
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  4. Posts : 8,870
    Windows 7 Ult, Windows 8.1 Pro,
       #4

    pltnfish said:
    I tried this but it kind of didn't work...


    When Windows starts connecting to the network the icon will show properly but as soon as it's done it will just go back to the "X" this does half fix the issue

    here's the network connections control pannel thing screenie
    You should right click on the LAN connection far left and disable it also. I believe the X is showing you that the LAN cable is disconnected.
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  5. Posts : 13
    Windows 7 Home Premium x64
    Thread Starter
       #5

    chev65 said:
    pltnfish said:
    *snip*
    You should right click on the LAN connection far left and disable it also. I believe the X is showing you that the LAN cable is disconnected.

    That didn't work... it did the same thing as before: when connecting it'll show the icon correctly, when it's done it'll go back to the LAN Disconnected icon
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  6. Posts : 8,870
    Windows 7 Ult, Windows 8.1 Pro,
       #6

    Have you tried looking in your Device Manager to see if there are any yellow marks on any of your other network adaptors?
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  7. Posts : 13
    Windows 7 Home Premium x64
    Thread Starter
       #7

    chev65 said:
    Have you tried looking in your Device Manager to see if there are any yellow marks on any of your other network adaptors?
    I just went in there, I found a couple of VMWARE drivers
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  8. Arc
    Posts : 35,373
    Microsoft Windows 10 Pro Insider Preview 64-bit
       #8

    See if the thread Solution: Wrong wireless network icon displayed helps you anyhow .
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  9. Posts : 13
    Windows 7 Home Premium x64
    Thread Starter
       #9

    That didn't work
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  10. Posts : 8,870
    Windows 7 Ult, Windows 8.1 Pro,
       #10

    pltnfish said:
    chev65 said:
    Have you tried looking in your Device Manager to see if there are any yellow marks on any of your other network adaptors?
    I just went in there, I found a couple of VMWARE drivers
    Are you using virtual machine ware on this machine?

    You should try removing the VM drivers with the yellow marks.
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