wifi icon missing from taskbar

Hi,
Can anyone tell me how to restore the wifi icon in the taskbar? I have
vista home premium on an HP laptop. It was there this morning, and now,
when i turned it on, its gone.
I right clicked on the taskbar, then left clicked on properties, found the
notification area, and the network square is grayed out so I can't put a
check in it. I think that is what would put the icon back next to the
battery icon.
TIA
Al

Try restarting. See if that help

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ronrontiu

"~alan HDX~" <> wrote in message
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> Hi,
> Can anyone tell me how to restore the wifi icon in the taskbar? I have
> vista home premium on an HP laptop. It was there this morning, and now,
> when i turned it on, its gone.
> I right clicked on the taskbar, then left clicked on properties, found the
> notification area, and the network square is grayed out so I can't put a
> check in it. I think that is what would put the icon back next to the
> battery icon.
> TIA
> Al
>

Try here and see if it helps:

http://www.mydigitallife.info/2009/0...k-box-options/

SC Tom

Thanks for the suggestion, but a restart didn't fix it. It gave me an idea,
though: restore point.
There had been a vista update on the 1st so I restored to 2 days before the
update.
I don't know if the update caused the problem or not, but the restore fixed
it.
Thanks,
Al


"ronrontiu" <> wrote in message
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>
> Try restarting. See if that helps
>
>
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> ronrontiu

Here is another solution (an easy one): 'Restore missing Notificatio
Area icons in Windows Vista - The Winhelponline Blog
(http://www.winhelponline.com/blog/no...sing-in-vista/

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whs

Do you people have some kind of fixation with registry tweak or high-tech
geek ?
What's wrong with doing a system restore, picking the date the icon was
present ?

t-4-2

"whs" <> wrote in message
news:...
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> Here is another solution (an easy one): 'Restore missing Notification
> Area icons in Windows Vista - The Winhelponline Blog'
> (http://www.winhelponline.com/blog/no...sing-in-vista/)
>
>
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> whs