Red X on system tray connection icon even though I am connected to the Internet. OS is Win 7 64 bit, how do I correct this.

Anonymous
2009-11-07T20:25:13+00:00

Red X in system tray connection icon...have reset router, restarted computer...how to correct this problem

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Anonymous
2014-05-21T04:43:21+00:00

All you actually had to do and I know this is a late late reply but its just in the case of letting you know how easy it really was to fix this issue what you should have done was turn the internet system icon off and back on that's what fixed this issue for me....

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Anonymous
2009-11-10T22:08:07+00:00

Try this. It worked for me.

I finally removed the security from my network and the network status now shows me as connected. The red X is gone. It seems that Windows 7 does not support WPA2-PSK. I cannot imagine that is the case. Any ideas as to why, as installed on my PC, it does not have an option for WPA2-PSK? As I said, the hardware is supported and previously worked with XP.

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  1. Anonymous
    2010-10-11T16:35:03+00:00

    I found this to work:

    1. Open the Registry Editor
    2. If you use Windows 7 browse to:

        HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\Local Settings\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\TrayNotify

    1. Delete the data of the following keys in this folder:

        IconStreams

        LastAdvertisement

        PastIconsStream

        PromotedIconCache

        UserStartTime

    1. Open the Task Manager.

       Switch to the process tab.

       Kill every explorer.exe process

       (this is necessary because the explorer.exe has a backup copy of this keys in the RAM and writes it back to the registry on shutdown)

       Switch to the application tab of the Task Manager.

       Press "New Task".

       Type "explorer.exe" and press [Enter].

    Credit to: HeikoM

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  2. Anonymous
    2015-09-22T15:49:53+00:00

    I had the same issue this worked for me. Press CTRL Shift Esc which opens the task manager. Click the processes tab and Image Name. Go to explorer.exe right click and click end process. At the top of the Windows task manager click file. From the sub menu click on New Task (Run...). When the window opens type explorer and click OK. This resets explorer. Not only does it remove the red x from your internet icon it also restores a missing speaker icon.

    WoW! Talk about clear and concise instructions. Problem solved. Thank you.

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  3. Anonymous
    2015-08-06T16:45:09+00:00

    I had the same issue this worked for me. Press CTRL Shift Esc which opens the task manager. Click the processes tab and Image Name. Go to explorer.exe right click and click end process. At the top of the Windows task manager click file. From the sub menu click on New Task (Run...). When the window opens type explorer and click OK. This resets explorer. Not only does it remove the red x from your internet icon it also restores a missing speaker icon.

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