Lost the modem icon

[heidthebaw]

I have a weird problem. After having altered nothing with my machine, when I connect to the internet using my usual dial-up connection the computer connects and works as normal except that the connection icon fails to appear in the system tray.

This is more of a pain than a major problem but I would like to know if anyone else has experienced this and what they did to fix it. I can go into Network Connections and shut the modem down from there but like I said it is a pain in the a***.

In the back of my mind I remember finding a window where it was possible to "Repair Icons", but I can't for the life of me remember where.

Can anybody sort me out.

[SARGE]

Double click My Computer, dial up networking. Right click your ISP, properties. You'll see "connect using" for modem, click configure, then options tab. Put a check in "display modem status".

[heidthebaw]

Sarge, Thanks for the reply. I remember this tab when I used Win 95 & 98 but can't find it anywhere in XP.
I have a few ISP's and the other ones work perfectly so I compared the settings of a known working one to the faulty one but all the settings were exactly the same.
Strange........

[nr0c]

If you right click your connection and go to properties under the general tab put a check in show icon in noticication area should fix the problem, Gary

[heidthebaw]

So simple. Thanks very much Gary.