Re: After XP SP2 install

From: Andy \(The Fiddler\) (nospam_at_home.com)
Date: 08/30/04


Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2004 21:22:12 +0100

Start, Connect To, Show all connections.
Have you got anything you shouldn't have or don't use, it should only list
your DSL, or LAN and maybe a dialup account. If you have anything else
that's what to look at first.

Andy B

"Donna L" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:2fea01c48ecc$5084f5a0$a301280a@phx.gbl...
> After installing SP2, I now have an icon in my
> notification area that is two computers with a yellow ball
> moving across them. If I disable it, it disables my
> Westell DSL Modem. When I hover over the icon, it says:
> Local Area Connection 12Mbps Status: Acquiring Network
> Address. I have gone into many discussion rooms and cannot
> find an answer. The icon comes up with the desktop and
> NEVER goes away. When I connect to the internet, I get a
> second icon with two computers (the regular one that I
> have always had), right next to the bouncing yellow ball
> one. I have one computer and use Verizon DSL to connect to
> the internet. When I open Control Panel>Network
> Connections, the window is as follows:
> 1) Broadband > Verizon Online
> 2) LAN or High-speed Internet > Local Area Connection
> 3) Wizard
> I have tried every support option and read all the faqs
> and other posts to resolve this, but cannot get rid of it.
> Since I never had this icon before, it HAS to be because
> of something that the SP2 changed. I know that sometimes
> you have to reconfigure some things to get your computer
> back to where it was running as before, but nobody seems
> to know how to get rid of my bouncing yellow ball icon.
> HELP ME!!!!!



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