Internet connection icon missing from systray

[Toppers]

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

 

[joel406]

Hello Toppers and welcome to the forum.

Your description of the missing network icon sounds like your running Vista not 7.

Plese post a screen shot of your desktop. And did you check to make sure it isn't just hidden. Press the arrow by the tray and make sure its not under there.

Let us know.

 

[derekimo]

Welcome Toppers,

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

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/13102-notification-area-icons-reset.html

 

[Toppers]

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

 

[Toppers]

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

 

[derekimo]

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,

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/9733-how-post-screenshot-seven-forums.html

Did you try the reset tutorial above?

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

 

[Toppers]

 

[steve-pressman]

Try this little application it is what I use all the time you have to go into it's options to make it load with windows though I think you'll find this is what you want.


Steve

 

[CarlTR6]

Your internet icon is there; it is the second from the end on the right. It is not the two monitors and globe that you mentioned; it is the bar graph. I have never had the two monitors icon in Win 7.

 

[joel406]

Your running wireless. Your "TV" has become a signal meter.

Its there!

 

[joel406]

You better charge that thing!

 

[Toppers]

Thanks Steve.
I loaded this utility and sure enough after going into the settings I've now got an icon again of the '2 tv's' in the systray. Neat!! I'm being very "picky" , but shame that no globe appears as well. Perhaps that's not really important, but before when the globe didn't appear this usually meant that my PC was not fully connected to the Web and you knew there was a problem. Is ther anyway of telling when this is happening from this new icon's settings?
A good workaround if the problem has been exhausted, but I'm still dying to know how to get the original icon back.
BTW thanks for all the welcome's to the forum....really nice touch and very helpful squad here!!
Toppers

 

[CarlTR6]

You get the original back by going to an Ethernet connection rather than a wireless connection. That little bar graph is your wireless icon. It is the strength meter.

 

[Toppers]

Just got my mains lead in on time.

I definitely (well 99%) had the other icon showing on my new PC. I've had it about a month now and it was only today that I noticed it missing for the first time, hence my posting. I do have senior moments sometimes (I'm leaving myself very open here and I'm not telling my age....LOL) and you are making me think that this might be another, as more than one person has said that they don't have the icon in W7. Do you know for a fact that W7 doesn't display the 2 tv's and globe icon in the systray? If so I'll say no more and head to bed!!!
Cheers and thanks again
Toppers

My wife has a wireless PC, but it runs Vista not W7 and her PC has the missing icon and also the graph for the network connection. So has this changed since since Vista?

 

[derekimo]

Here's what the icon looks like for a wired connection.

 

[CarlTR6]

So has this changed since since Vista?

I never ran Vista; but it has changed since XP. My wife still runs XP. At first, that new icon threw me, too. So don't feel bad.

 

[derekimo]

This is vista's icon.

 

[Toppers]

Very diplomatic CarlTR6, thanks. So unless there are any other offers, I shall concede defeat and get to bed. At least I got the 2 tv icon from one of the above posts, so it hasn't been a complete waste of time.
Toppers

 

[CarlTR6]

Thanks for posting those, Derek. I had never seen the wired icon in 7.

 

[derekimo]

Thanks for posting those, Derek. I had never seen the wired icon in 7.

You're Welcome Carl.