settings [dial-up connection icon] won't stay on reboot

on my dial up connection i like to see the status of my connection...so under properties i clicked show tray icon for progress....it appears and all is well for the current session....but after i log off, reboot and reconnect the status icon
icon is gone and i have to do it all over again...any help would be greatly appereciated

 

Several things to try. If the first one works, no need for the second. If neither works, we can try a few other things.

- Delete the dial-up connection and create a new one. Right-click on My Network Places, left-click on Properties, and delete the connection.

- Click on start, on run, keying in

Code:

sfc /scannow

and OK.

 

tried

thanks for the quick response....did as you said no luck..the little tvs for dial up status are gone again after reboot

 

Darn - was hoping one of those would fix things right up. This particular issue, or close cousins to it, can be easy to fix or can be a real nightmare to work on and may or may not get solved without a clean reinstall of the OS and that usually is something folks don't want to do to fix an annoyance.

Do you have a regular network card installed?

Are you running SP2?

One of these may help and none will hurt anything

Click on start, on run, key in cmd and OK to open a cmd window (DOS window). Type in each of these and press ENTER after each line.

regsvr32 netshell.dll
regsvr32 netcfgx.dll
regsvr32 netman.dll

 

will try

yes have network card
running xp home with sp2 updates
a brand new 5 day old puter from dell (dimension 2400)
what are those dos commands gonna check?
just curious

 

The regsvr32 commands aren't going to check anything. They are going to 'register' the .dll files for the OS. It is done at install time by the setup routine but sometimes things shake loose.

If they are currently registered, no harm to do it again. If they (or any one of them) aren't, it may fix your problem.

But now that you mention it's a new system, I'd say make Dell fix it for you. That feature is supposed to work.

 

oookay

appreciate all your efforts, still same thing ....dell was last resort
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