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1111365 2010-06-18 09:41:00 normally my wireless icon is the one where theirs a little screen which goes green when internet activity goes on with sound waves to the right of it (the normal wireless taskbar thing in xp). today when i turned my pc on and it's still like this. its now a stick with sound waves going out of it. here's what it looks like today:



how do i fix it or is this just an update or something. im suspicious. i have done scans with MSE, spybot, malwarebytes. nothing found. so i'm clean.
goodiesguy (15316)
1111366 2010-06-18 09:46:00 If its working dont worry about it Speedy Gonzales (78)
1111367 2010-06-18 09:48:00 yeah but i like the old icon. i'm wondering whats changed. windows dosent automatically update. i get it to let me know when their is updates. i still need to do windows update. all i know is that it wasent like that when i turned it off at 2am this morning. i just want to know if its something to do with xp or a virus goodiesguy (15316)
1111368 2010-06-18 09:50:00 Its for wireless. It depends whether youre using windows drivers or the drivers for whatever adapter. The icon may look different Speedy Gonzales (78)
1111369 2010-06-18 09:53:00 i could have updated the driver without knowing. anyways it dosent really matter but when i hover my mouse over it it does'nt show the connection stats (connection: very good etc.. network name). goodiesguy (15316)
1111370 2010-06-18 10:04:00 There's nothing wrong with your Wi-Fi. Just hover your mouse over the icon and wait for the words to appear. The icon is indicating that the Wi-Fi is working properly. Right click it and it should give you more information bluenose (14548)
1111371 2010-06-18 10:07:00 i get nothing when i hover over. anyways. thanks for the help. though it might be suspicious goodiesguy (15316)
1111372 2010-06-18 10:13:00 Mine was like that on my Laptop with Win XP. Quite normal, and yes you're right about the updated driver for it, that's exactly what has happened.

LL Cheers
lakewoodlady (103)
1111373 2010-06-18 10:20:00 yeah must have. my laptop hasent got this new one thats shown up on my pc today. must be a driver goodiesguy (15316)
1111374 2010-06-19 07:32:00 it's back to normal. must have been some sort of error or something goodiesguy (15316)
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