I’ve got W7. I set it up so as to manually decree connection to the Internet — the big, bad Internet.
In setting it so, I caused “Connect To” to appear in the right pane of the Start menu. I have to click on that, click in a box that appears to the right, way over to the right on the desktop, blandishing, “Broadband Connection”, then, “Connect”, to connect to the big, bad Internet.
Lazy in that, not wishing to drill all the way to China; and, leaning on you, is there a quickie way to do this — in and out of the big, bad Internet?
Used to be that I did it with dialup — in and out and gone, default.