One of those bugs I just learned to live with after a while. But wow, this fixed it! Thank you so much! I too have this problem after installing Bluesoleil with VPN already installed on the machine previously.
It appeared to me that there could be dozens of if not more causes for this problem. It turned out that I had two VPN software installed on my computer, and they worked differently: one simply used Winsock filter drivers, and the other one Ethersoft VPN had a bunch of legacy drivers in addition to filter drivers.
Either one of them would cause the red X issue if it was installed before Bluesoleil. The uninstallation program of Ethersoft VPN was a crap and it did not completely remove all the drivers.
I had to manually unistall a driver and going through the Windows Registry to clean up the garbages it left behind. The red X on the network icon was an annoying nuisance but a very expensive one for me, cuz it costed me well more than half a day to have finally resolved it. PatrickOfLondon on February 27, at am. This worked for me. Problem solved! Sync on June 4, at pm. Thanks for the info Jason. Ruby on July 18, at am. Thank you so much, PatrickofLondon!
Joanna on October 2, at pm. Where did you see incoming connections?? Did not solve the problerm with me. Erik on January 25, at am.
No changes for me either. Cameron on February 7, at pm. Sandy on February 10, at am. PatrickOfLondon……Thanks dude…..!!! Kris on March 7, at am. Thank you, PatrickOfLondon. After trying numerous fixes for about 5 hours, this worked!!!! Happy Easter. Mick on June 22, at pm. No 'visual' as on XP Pro. Just a plain gray icon that implies if present and no other notification all is great with connection s. One must rely on other communications devices lights to determine if movement on line such as modem, router, etc.
Have moved all com physical devices within the peripheral field of vision, so can detect activiy on the line. How'bout dem apples! I had the same problem. To fix it, I uninstalled the drivers for the LAN and Wireless adapters, rebooted the computer [don't know if I needed to reboot in Windows 7 but it can't hurt.
If you need to, you should download the driver installers off the internet before uninstalling the drivers, obviously. After that the icons worked great! In my case I think the registry got corrupt when I installed Orical Virtual Box, and Virtual Box installed a virtual network adapter, so, reinstalling the drivers fixed the registry.
I faced same problem last week am using win7 ulitmate x86 i recently installed VM-ware workstation and my tray connection shows am disconnected while am not am using wired network. Since VM installs 2 other vriual network cards i check it out and fixd the problem for me , I did the following:. Disable the 2 vriual network cards created by VM The blue circle starts to spin looking for a network. Enable my main network card that solve my problem Tray icon back to normal and shows am connected.
I try your suggestion but the issue continue. I see the 4 bars with a little orange sun or asterik? Have internet connection OK. But can't find a reliable way to recover the Icon without this orange asterik I ran into a similar problem after toying with VPN in Windows 7. Both my work PC and my home PC suffered from similar issues as described in this post, a red X over the connection icon in the notification area, but a consistent internet connection none the less. My work PC is a member of a domain, and my home PC is on a peer to peer network.
Although the issue is inconsitent, I think it has something to do with the implementation of the seperate VPN connection listed below my wired connection in the notification area. It seems as though even when I delete the VPN connection, and incoming connection it still changes of its own accord.
To resolve the issue I uninstalled the driver for my gigabit NIC Which in this particular instance took considerably longer than normal and let it reinstall itself on reboot. Fixed the problem on both my home PC and work PC.
Even in dissimilar instances, I think trying a uninstalling and re-installing NIC driver, and b updating NIC driver to the latest version might be a good place to start. Even if it is a WLAN card, give it a try and see what happens. I see this solution has worked for other people in this post, and there seems to be a common theme: when having one or more connections present windows can potentially display the status of an inactive connection, while still utilizing the active connection to communicate.
I only have wireless and the icon always has shown connected with 5 bars until about a week ago. I don't know why it happened. Mine does not show any identification when I hover over with the pointer. However, it used to do so. I cannot connect to the other computers in my home network. Well I had the same problem. I remember back when I was doing a lot of online gaming and I didnt have a wireless receiver for my so I bridged one of my connections and It didn't start it the display problem immediately, but it came up a little while ago.
Yesterday I deleted the bridge and it fixed the problem. Hopefully this helps but idk if you have any bridged connections. Hi, i'm new to the site; and, i have the same issues with my network icon displaying a red X in the systray. But after lots of testing, I might have found a solution.
Now before you get too excited! I got some of my ideas from others solutions that I have read, thus far about the problem. So to get to the point Disable your Network Adapter. Select in top left control of window, select Change adapter setting s. Right click Local area connectio n, and select Disable. Select the Processes tab. Right click and end Process. I hope this helps. It might only be a temporary fix. If this doesn't fix your problem, you might need to check network settings. I know it sounds weird but this only started happening to me; when my Network monitoring gear detected that my ISP changed my DNS server info 15 times in 30 min.
Last remark was more of "just a thought. I haven't really spent time with what you are trying to do but give this things a look. You may also have to allow sharing of folders where media is actually stored, I don't think so but maybe. I had a similar problem develop. The red x was overlaid on top of my network icon but my internet connection was working fine. I found the easiest way to remedy the problem was to delete the unused icons in the icon tray using the registry edit in the following article:.
After deleting the "icon streams" and "past icon streams" registry keys, terminating the "explorer. It seems that the red x overlay will persist as the normal network icon even with a working internet connection until the system tray is reset.
Same problem. I tried the solution from xXValdisXx first but Jingoist brought me on the idea of changing the hidden network properties. Go to the Network and Sharing Center and click the active network icon the house if it's a home network. This opens a window Set Network Properties and a link to Merge or delete network locations. I had 10 entries for my home network and deleted all instances which were not in use. After that I had my icon back. Using Win7 Home Premium, v6. The only thing that consistently got rid of the indicator showing bars with the orange asterisk and showing that I DID have Internet Access when hovered on was ridiculously easy: Turn off the WiFi on the keyboard before shutting down.
After booting up next time and everything is loaded, turn WiFi on. Works fine every time. Why mess with what works for now :. I tried several things to fix it, then I found directions for disabling IPv6 using a registry entry. Office Office Exchange Server. Not an IT pro? Windows Client. Sign in. United States English.
Ask a question. Quick access. Search related threads. Remove From My Forums. Answered by:. Archived Forums. Windows 7 Networking. Sign in to vote. I am wirelessly connected to my Secure Home Network and have been surfing the internet quite happily. However the network status indicator in the system tray is greyed out with a red 'X' over it instead of the globe????
As if I am not connected? Its not really an issue as I have access to the web and online stuff, I'm just wondering if anyone else has come across this and if they have managed to fix it???? Alternatively if there is anybody out there who knows what the issue is? As I said, its not really a problem I would just like 'all the pretty lights to come on'. Wednesday, May 6, PM. Yea, it says the name of my network and internet access. The connection works fine, just shows the wrong icon.
As of a couple days ago after a reboot to finish some updates the icon has fixed itself, no longer has the red X over it. It sucks watching a show only to have it end right when the plot is building. I just installed the RC on a second desktop, have to move the tuner to that machine and see if it does any better.
Tuesday, June 16, AM. If your PC has both wireless and wired RJ45 port capability, then the greyed out with red X is for your wired connection since you're using wireless instead of wired. It's just saying your wired connection is not connected. Thanks alot, I considered that.
I have this same issue on Windows 7 x64 RC. Even when both my Ethernet and Wireless are both connected it still shows a read X. Come to think of it I haven't seen it have the globe in a good while. Thursday, May 7, PM. I don't believe what The Digital Jedi said is correct.
I don't see why having a disconnected network connection should reflect a red X in the Network Status System Tray. A lot of people have both Wired and Wireless enabled at any given time but yet not using both. Friday, May 15, AM. I have the same issue as well on x86 RC with only a wired connection.
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