My LAN Connection icon not appearing

[simdan42]

If I right click on My Network Places and click properties the network connection folder appears. However not one of my three LAN Connections appear in this window. I am able to access the internet, our corporate network, and sent and recieve email.

Does anyone know if there is a setting somewhere in the OS to hide these Icon, or anything else that may hide them? Please Help!!!

 

[baddy]

Right click the Start button > Properties > Taskbar Tab > Notification Area: Customize > Highlight your network connection icons and choose "Always show"

HTH,

Patrick

 

[simdan42]

There are no network connections in the list upon which to click.

 

[baddy]

A stab at the obvious...

Right click "My Network Places" > Properties... right click the LAN Connection > Properties... on the bottom there is a box for "Show icon in notification area when connected". Is that unchecked?

 

[simdan42]

There are no LAN connections on which to click. None of them show up on that screen. That is the issue I need to resolve.

 

[baddy]

Ack, sorry - I must have totally misread your initial question.

 

[smah]

Just for fun, try to create a new network connection using the wizard - are any options greyed out?

 

[simdan42]

It will only let me create a Dail up or Vpn connection. But it does show up after it is created the other are still AWOL

 

[smah]

See if one of these fits your condition

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;329441

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;281625

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;320558

Usually a reinstall of SP1 will fix it also.

 

[simdan42]

Tried everything in those document and re installed SP1, still having issue.

 

[smah]

Is the Remote Access Connection Manager Service running? It should show as 'Started' and set to 'Manual' starup. You can find this at Start, Run, services.msc

 

[simdan42]

Yeah, It is running

 

[smah]

A couple more things to try:

Open a command prompt and type sfc /scannow. If that doesn't fix it, you could try System Restore. As a last resort, try a repair installation

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;315341

 

[simdan42]

Still not showing up.

 

[simdan42]

Just FYI I fixed it. It was the permissions set on the registry keys for those LAN connecion objects. The local admin did not have any right to those.