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why the Vista globe icon is missing

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  • Started 4 months ago by JadeEmperor
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JadeEmperor
JadeEmperor
Posts: 139

for some reason, the globe icon in Vista's network icon disappears from time to time. it was mentioned elsewhere that the appearance of this globe icon suggest a connection to the Internet exists. well i'm on the internet yet the globe icon is missing. and hovering the mouse over the network neighborhood icons says "Access: Local Only".

is there a fix for this or is this some kind of feature with Vista?

Posted 4 months ago #
 
whs
whs
Posts: 6322

If you are on a router (tethered or WiFi), it might be the "idle time out" of the router that does it. You have to set it to zero in the router.

Posted 4 months ago #
 
fwpsych
Posts: 1

My Vista globe icon has toatally disappeared even when I am connected to the internet. It is true of all computers connected to my home router wired ar wireless.

Posted 3 months ago #
 
Bartman
Bartman
Posts: 351

Hi fwpsych. Welcome to HTG fellow Fort Wayneian!

The same thing happened to me. Seemed to have fixed it by right clicking network icon >
Network and Sharing > Customize > click Public > next > close > restart computer.

Don't really know what caused this ( just started recently ). Mine was set to Private which
seems to be what caused it, but I'm not sure.

Posted 3 months ago #
 

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