VPN connectoid invisible in tray, how to disconnect?

I am using Mircosoft PPTP VPN to the company LAN. It is served by a
Windows 2003 server on an AD domain.

Usually when I have connected the tunnel there are three items that
show that I am indeed connected:
1) There is a "twin computer" icon in the tray with the name of my
connectoid.

2) If I start the connection link on my desktop I do not get the
connect dialogue, but instead the statistics window with a button to
disconnect (same if I doubleclick the tray icon)

3) I can connect to and use the resources on the remote network.

But now for some unknown reason this has stopped. There is no tray
icon and when I use the connect VPN link it shows the normal connect
dialogue instead of the statistics one.
Thus I have nowhere to disconnect my session!

How can I restore the previous behaviour and how can I disconnect
now????

My only option now to check the connection state is to try using a
network resource and finding that it works or not....


Bo Berglund
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