"DanR" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> Sla#s wrote:
>> Advice please.
>> The two computer icon has disappeared from my machines tray and in
>> 'Network
>> Connections' the Broadband connection says it is 'disconnected'.
>> But I am still online.
>> But more annoyingly a box keeps appearing saying I'm disconnected and
>> tries
>> to make a dial up type connection. I've stopped it actually dialling but
>> the
>> box
>> keeps appearing.
>> I've checked that I don't have a dialler
<SNIP>
> Right click on the taskbar and select "properties". Note the checkbox that
> reads
> "Hide inactive icons". Click on "Customize". Note the setting for your
> network
> connection. This could be why the icon has disappeared.
All ready tried that - the icon is not there at all.
> In "Control Panel" click on "Internet Properties". Click tab for
> "Connections".
> Make sure that "Never dial a connections" is checked or grayed out.
All ready done. But it still tried to connect.
> When your computer "tries" to dial out... do you recognize the phone
> number it
> is dialing?
THAT'S the weird bit - It's greyed out so I can't tell.
>Have you EVER set up any dial-up connection?
Yes, I have a dialup to my provider as an emergency back up but it needs all
the password details to be entered.
I have now deleted this and don't get the dialer any more but there is still
no 'connected' icon in the tray.
> I suggest running
> various spyware detectors. MS Antispyware, lavasoft, spybot.
First thing I did :-) no problems there.
> What exactly does the box read that says you are disconnected?
>
"We have detected that you are disconnected from the internet.... (can't
remember the rest.).
Apart form there being no tray icon the problem has gone.
Thanks
Slatts
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