Thanks for the suggestion, but I've already done that.

I still get the icon showing up in the system tray after every reboot.

Any ideas?


"ras" wrote:

> Right-click on the taskbar icon and select 'Open Network Connections' then
> right-click 'Local Area Connection' and select 'Properties'. On the General
> tab and toward the bottom uncheck 'Show icon...........'.
>
>
> "Icon help" wrote in message
> news:BAEA0345-7992-42F7-867E-05B729505284@microsoft.com...
> > How do you *really* hide the LAN connection icon in the system tray?
> >
> > If you go to Taskbar and Start Menu Properties, click Customize, select
> > the
> > LAN connection icon, and set it to "Always hide", the icon is nicely
> > hidden.
> >
> > Until the next reboot.
> >
> > Then it comes back.
> >
> > Is there a Registry tweak or some other trick to work around this XP bug?
> >
> > thanks in advance for your help
>
>
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