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Local Area Connection Status -- able to autostart?
There is an object called Local Area Connection Status. It is located in Control Panel -> Network and Internet -> Network and Sharing Center in the section below the title "View your active networks." You launch it by clicking the "link" labeled "Local Area Connection." On Windows XP, this item had an icon directly in the Control Panel (which had less structure than it does now on W7) and I was able to just drag it directly into the Startup folder. On W7, this thing doesn't have an icon. The closest I have come is to drag the Network and Sharing Center icon into the Startup folder. After a fresh reboot the Network and Sharing Center does automatically open, so I click the Local Area Connection link, then I close the Network and Sharing Center. After a resume from hibernate, the Local Area Connection object is not open. So I navigate Start Menu -> All Programs -> Startup & open the Network and Sharing Center (which requires popping up the context menu & selecting Open, because the default action on this object is Expand, which means it actually does nothing when you just click or double-click on the item in the Startup menu), and manually relaunch the Local Area Connection object. I would like the Local Area Connection Status object itself directly in the Startup folder. As an alternative, I'd accept a technique that involves auto-starting something from the Task Scheduler.
In contrast to this, take a look at another similar object. Navigate to Control Panel -> Harware and Sound. In there, you can see a sub-category called Sound. That has an icon. I have dragged that icon into the Startup folder & that object does automatically launch at bootup. So it seems that the absence of an icon beside the Local Area Connection Status item in the Network and Sharing Center is what is preventing me from doing what I want.
Any ideas how to accomplish what I want?