Strange!! No Icon in the Network Connections

14 Jun 2005 8:47 AM

Jan

Hello everyone,

I have just formatted my PC and installed WinXP SP 2. But after that I could
not find any icon displaying my LAN card (and VPN as well) in the Network
Connections folder of the Control Panel. However, I still can go online now
and it shown a correct IP address!

Actually, I could see it when I was using SP 2 before I formatted my PC. But
at that time the SP2 was installed from upgrading SP 1.

Can anyone help me? Thanks a lot in advance!

From Hong Kong,

Jan

14 Jun 2005 12:38 PM

Ron Lowe

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"Jan" <J**@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:8F00F050-ED9B-4534-A458-FC38E14DAD51@microsoft.com...
> Hello everyone,
>
> I have just formatted my PC and installed WinXP SP 2. But after that I
> could
> not find any icon displaying my LAN card (and VPN as well) in the Network
> Connections folder of the Control Panel. However, I still can go online
> now
> and it shown a correct IP address!
>
> Actually, I could see it when I was using SP 2 before I formatted my PC.
> But
> at that time the SP2 was installed from upgrading SP 1.
>
> Can anyone help me? Thanks a lot in advance!
>
> From Hong Kong,
>
> Jan

Go to start | run and type 'services.msc', and hit enter.
Scroll down through the list of services,
and look for the 'Network Connections' service.

Is it started?
If not, start it.

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Ron Lowe
MVP - Windows Networking

15 Jun 2005 4:46 AM

Jan

Thanks very much, Ron. You've been very helpful.

I did what you've said, it is already started, but there is still nothing
inside "Network Connections".

Jan

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"Ron Lowe" wrote:

> "Jan" <J**@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:8F00F050-ED9B-4534-A458-FC38E14DAD51@microsoft.com...
> > Hello everyone,
> >
> > I have just formatted my PC and installed WinXP SP 2. But after that I
> > could
> > not find any icon displaying my LAN card (and VPN as well) in the Network
> > Connections folder of the Control Panel. However, I still can go online
> > now
> > and it shown a correct IP address!
> >
> > Actually, I could see it when I was using SP 2 before I formatted my PC.
> > But
> > at that time the SP2 was installed from upgrading SP 1.
> >
> > Can anyone help me? Thanks a lot in advance!
> >
> > From Hong Kong,
> >
> > Jan
>
>
> Go to start | run and type 'services.msc', and hit enter.
> Scroll down through the list of services,
> and look for the 'Network Connections' service.
>
> Is it started?
> If not, start it.
>
> --
> Best Regards
> Ron Lowe
> MVP - Windows Networking
>
>
>

15 Jun 2005 4:24 PM

Hans-Georg Michna

On Tue, 14 Jun 2005 21:46:10 -0700, Jan
<J**@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>I did what you've said, it is already started, but there is still nothing
>inside "Network Connections".

Jan,

www.michna.com/kb/wxnet.htm has a chapter on this. You could
fill in the form and see if you get a good solution.

Hans-Georg

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