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nite_monkey:
Windows strikes again! I'm running windows 7 pro x64 on my Dell Vostro 1520, and for the longest time the wifi on it worked perfectly fine, and the icon in the system tray showed my signal strength. But here recently it just shows the little red x that appears when you are not connected to the internet. However, when I click on the icon, it shows that I am indeed connected to the internet. I've tried uninstalling the drivers so that I could reinstall them, but you know how windows is. Even if you uninstall the drivers for something, you aren't really uninstalling the drivers. So when I went to the device manager and told it to search for new hardware, it found my wifi card, and reinstalled the drivers (the ones that I supposedly removed) It is very annoying that that stupid icon always shows me as being disconnected. I use that icon to tell whenever my internet randomly decides to die on me. (it has been going out every five minutes here recently) Any help on fixing this would be really appreciated.

40hz:
Three suggestions:

1. Check to the adapter properties to see if you have the IPv6 protocol enabled. If you're not using IPv6 (and most of us still aren't) try disabling it and doing a restart.

2. If you're using a 3rd-party utility to control your adapter - don't. Try using the built-in controls in Win7 unless there's some feature in the manufacturer's utility you really can't live without.

3. If you've installed Apple's iTunes on your system, try temporarily disabling the Bonjour service and see if the problem goes away. For some odd reason Bonjour occasionally causes weird problems when running under Win 7. Not that it was all that cooperative a piece of software before Windows 7. You'll usually see this start to happen right after a software update to iTunes or Windows.

Luck! :Thmbsup:

nite_monkey:
1. I tried disabling it, and restarted (problem still there)
2. I have a third party tool, not for my built in wifi, it is for my usb card that I use to connect my ds to the internet.
3. I hate iTunes, and therefore do not have it installed.

2b. I uninstalled the third party tool, and after restarting my laptop, the problem is still there.

Stoic Joker:
Hm... iTunes is not the only place one can pickup a Bonjour virus infection. Some of HP's printer drivers have begun installing it also. Either that of Dell started including it for some insane reason. Point being check and be tripple sure it ain't there before checking it off the list.

However a Bonjour virus infection typically actually does completely cripple the machines ability to do anything properly on the wire. So I'm wondering if it might just be mild case Icon Cache corruption.

40hz:
So I'm wondering if it might just be mild case Icon Cache corruption.
-Stoic Joker (October 07, 2011, 11:17 AM)
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@SJ - Oooooo...now that's a clever thought! Hadn't though of that angle. :Thmbsup:

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