Mysterious icon in system tray with red X.

On 2008-07-09, "Tom Del Rosso" wrote:"

> "Robbie Hatley" <lonewolf.DeleteThis@well.com> wrote in message
> news:bK2dnb-5msMaruzVnZ2dnUVZ_u6dnZ2d@giganews.com
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> > I think I see what happened, now. On coming back from stand-by,
> > Windows tries to start a program that requires a network connection,
> > but the network is not up yet, so Windows displays a red-X icon.
> > After the network comes up, it also displays the normal network
> > icon, but fails to erase the "red-X" one, which then stays there
> > forever. A bug in the code that handles network icons in system
> > tray.
>
> Noooooo. It means you have 2 network adapters. Open "Network and Dial-up
> Connections" in control panel. One of them may be a virtual adapter. If
> you don't need it, disable it, or delete it if it's virtual.


YYYYYYEEEEEESSSSSS iiittt mmmeeeaaannnsss just what I said it means.

No, I don't have two network adaptors, either physical or virtual.
Why do you think I would not have noticed? In fact, if you actually
READ the previous posts in this thread, you'd see that I already
thorougly checked-out those options before bothering to post to
this group.

Furthermore (again as I already made very clear in previous posts)
neither right-clicking, nor left-clicking, nor double-clicking this
zombie icon has any effect whatsoever. It's dead weight. It does
nothing, indicates nothing, and always disappears the next time the
machine is restarted.

So NO, it is NOT a second network adaptor, either physical or virtual.
It's not linked or related to any NIC, virtual adaptor, port, or other
network-related entity in, on, or attached-to my computer. It is a
zombie.

So yes, it must be a left-over "cable disconnected" icon from my
one existing NIC.

Therefore, yes, it can only be a bug somehere in the code that
writes/erases "network cable disconnected" icons to the system tray.
I can see no other option that fits the facts. Can you? (And this
time, I recommend that would-be respondants go back and read the whole
thread before jumping in with suggestions which have already been
ruled-out by observations in previous posts.)

Update as of 2008-08-10: Over the last month, the mysterious icon
has not returned even once, so I am unable to either verify or
debunk my theory as to its origins. It seems the most likely
cause, though. Probably just one of thousands (millions?) of
minor bugs which haunt all of todays huge operating systems.
Most of them are only triggered by exceptionally rare circumstances,
which is why they were never caught during alpha or beta testing.
No big surprise there, really. Where there's software, there's bugs.

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Cheers,
Robbie Hatley
lonewolf aatt well dott com
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