Easy way tio disable/enable internet connection in Vista?

[Pipboy]

OK, what's Microsoft's game here? In XP I could easily disable/enable my
internet connection by using the system tray icon to disable the connection
and by putting a shortcut to the connection on my quick launch bar I could
quickly enable it again. Apart from the fact it takes my hardware five
minutes to get an internet connection in Vista after first booting up,
where is my simple method to enable/disable the connection go? The icon
Microsoft put there now has no option to disable the connection. Yes, I
could use the long method and go to device manager and disaable the network
card but it worked perfectly in XP the other way. The only logical reason
I can see for Microsoft doing away with this method is because they don't
want us to easily disable our connection so they can keep us updated all
the time. I don't need those features though and want a quaick and easy
method to disable/enable my connection as I please. By chance is there a
new method to do this in Vista?

 

[Jon]

OK, what's Microsoft's game here? In XP I could easily disable/enable my
internet connection by using the system tray icon to disable the
connection
and by putting a shortcut to the connection on my quick launch bar I could
quickly enable it again. Apart from the fact it takes my hardware five
minutes to get an internet connection in Vista after first booting up,
where is my simple method to enable/disable the connection go? The icon
Microsoft put there now has no option to disable the connection. Yes, I
could use the long method and go to device manager and disaable the
network
card but it worked perfectly in XP the other way. The only logical reason
I can see for Microsoft doing away with this method is because they don't
want us to easily disable our connection so they can keep us updated all
the time. I don't need those features though and want a quaick and easy
method to disable/enable my connection as I please. By chance is there a
new method to do this in Vista?

Can disconnect easily via systray here.

Right-click systray network icon > Disconnect from > <name of connection>

Mind you that's with a direct usb connection. When I'm connected via network
that's not available.

 

[Roy Coorne]

Can disconnect easily via systray here.

Right-click systray network icon > Disconnect from > <name of connection>

Mind you that's with a direct usb connection. When I'm connected via
network that's not available.

When I'm connected via network that _is_ available.

Roy

 

[Jon]

When I'm connected via network that _is_ available.

Roy

Interesting. Everyone's network set-up will vary eg wireless vs ethernet,
domain vs workgroup etc

 

[Pipboy]

Interesting. Everyone's network set-up will vary eg wireless vs ethernet,
domain vs workgroup etc

Hmm, I'm thinking the drivers Microsoft provided for my ethernet card are
flaky and that is why I don't see the option and why it is taking a long
time to get the initial connection going. IPv4 says connected but IPv6 says
limited connection. I'm using the ehternet on my my mb and I see thay have
an updated Vista ethernet driver for the newer version of that mb but not
my revision of the mb even though both mb's use the same ethernet
controller chip. Maybe I should try installing that driver anyway.

 

[Jon]

Hmm, I'm thinking the drivers Microsoft provided for my ethernet card are
flaky and that is why I don't see the option and why it is taking a long
time to get the initial connection going. IPv4 says connected but IPv6
says
limited connection. I'm using the ehternet on my my mb and I see thay have
an updated Vista ethernet driver for the newer version of that mb but not
my revision of the mb even though both mb's use the same ethernet
controller chip. Maybe I should try installing that driver anyway.

BTW you can drag your local area connection icon from 'Network Connections'
to your quick launch or desktop, and choose 'create shortcut here'. If you
then right-click it there's a Disable / Enable option.

I'm not sure how significant the ipv6 showing limited is, if at all. I doubt
whether the 5 minute startup delay is related to that - could be a faulty
firewall or other setting on the computer you're networked to.

 

[Pipboy]

BTW you can drag your local area connection icon from 'Network Connections'
to your quick launch or desktop, and choose 'create shortcut here'. If you
then right-click it there's a Disable / Enable option.

I'm not sure how significant the ipv6 showing limited is, if at all. I doubt
whether the 5 minute startup delay is related to that - could be a faulty
firewall or other setting on the computer you're networked to.

That's the method I used on XP. In Vista it is all funky for me. First I
had to turn on network discovery to even get the icon,the network
connection icon gave me no option to disable/enable. Funny thing is the
router icon does though. Problem is that if I use that to disable the
connection it takes 5 minutes again to get my connection back. Doing the
same thing in XP is almost instantaneous. One thing I have noticed as to
why it is taking so long to get a connetion is because it is not getting
the correct IP address from the router. After about five minutes it gets
the correct address. This is unacceptable and XP is much better for me. I'm
not spending another 100 bucks on a new router just because Vista's
internet connection has been effed up by Microsoft. My router works
perfectly fine with Win9x. Win2K, XP, Linux, and Xbox 360 even so why the
hell not Vista? This is BS Microsoft.