Internet connection icon missing from systray

Hi,
I turned on my Dell Laptop running W7 today and the "2 tv's and globe" icon showing that you are connected to the Internet is missing from the systray. Thankfully I'm connected to the Internet, however it is very annoying and mystifying that this icon has just disappeared. I've gone into the taskbar properties and done the customiise option, but the icon does not appear on that list either so I don't have an option to 'show' it permamently etc. I've also tried a few System Restore points and that hasn't made any difference either.
Despite trying to Goggle a solution for several hours, I've not gotten anywhere. I'm now turning to the experts here to see if anyone on this Forum can suggest a solution to this niggly little problem? Hopefully someone has come across this already and has sorted it out?
Many thanks for any help or suggestions.
Toppers

Welcome Toppers,

You can try this tutorial to see if that fixes it for you,

Notification Area Icons - Reset

Hi,
Definately running W7 and not Vista and as mentioned it's definitely not hidden, although I may not have explained this clearly enough. Sorry I don't know how to show a screen dump of my desktop.
Thanks for the reply. Any other suggestions?
Toppers

Hi derekimo,
Tried that Tutorial as well before my original posting and it didn't work either.
Thanks for the suggestion anyway.
Toppers

Toppers said:

Hi,
Definately running W7 and not Vista and as mentioned it's definitely not hidden, although I may not have explained this clearly enough. Sorry I don't know how to show a screen dump of my desktop.
Thanks for the reply. Any other suggestions?
Toppers

This should help with the screenshot,

https://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials...en-forums.html

Did you try the reset tutorial above?

Edit: Just saw your second post that you tried it.