Hi all,
I install, support, and maintain a lot of PCs. If they get them messed up enough I bring them back to my office. I have to deal with PCs that have dial-up connections. When I’m working on dial-up PCs in my office they get connected to a LAN that utilizes a high speed internet connection. I turn on the “show icon in notification area when connected” switch so that I know immediately if the PC has lost gained connection. This is kind of handy since I may have quite a few of them at a time.
Before I return the dial-up PCs I disconnect the LAN and check/re-establish dial-up networking. I also uncheck the “show icon in notification area when connected” and the “Notify me when this connection has limited or no connectivity” checkboxes under the LAN connection. The latter does not seem to have any effect.
The reason I would like to not have the icon there is because people get freaked out by the little icon with the red X through it. Hiding it is not good enough as they might expand the system tray and see it among the hidden items.
So, this question is simply about removing the icon in the sys tray for wired connections (it has nothing to do with the wireless networking).
Right now my only solution, short of removing the NIC is to disable the LAN connection in network connections. That seems a bit excessive to me. Registry hacks are acceptable.
