Network Connections in Control Panel

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Barry Ward

Just lately whenever I right click on a connection icon and select "Status",
nothing happens. Also if I right click and select properties a box pops up
saying "There was an unexpected error". It doesn't tell me what the error is
or anything else.

Can anyone tell me what's gone wrong and how I might be able to correct it.

Thanks in advance.
 
Just lately whenever I right click on a connection icon and select "Status",
nothing happens. Also if I right click and select properties a box pops up
saying "There was an unexpected error". It doesn't tell me what the erroris
or anything else.

Can anyone tell me what's gone wrong and how I might be able to correct it.

Thanks in advance.
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Are you sure that's what the error message says?

Is this icon you are clicking in the Taskbar notification area (on the
bottom right), is it in the Networks Connections page or in some
folder? If I right click my XP Pro SP3 network icon in the tray, I
can choose status, but not properties (from here).

Have you tried using Google to search for:

network icon There was an unexpected error

There is short a Microsoft article http://support.microsoft.com/kb/824923
regarding a message concerning problems with the properties of a
network connection, but their error is this:

An unexpected error occurred.

Then, depending on your situation, there are other posts from various
places with other ideas.

Please provide more precise details, or if this helps figure it out,
let us know.
 
Just lately whenever I right click on a connection icon and select
"Status",
nothing happens. Also if I right click and select properties a box pops up
saying "There was an unexpected error". It doesn't tell me what the error
is
or anything else.

Can anyone tell me what's gone wrong and how I might be able to correct
it.

Thanks in advance.
Click to expand...

Are you sure that's what the error message says?

Is this icon you are clicking in the Taskbar notification area (on the
bottom right), is it in the Networks Connections page or in some
folder? If I right click my XP Pro SP3 network icon in the tray, I
can choose status, but not properties (from here).

Have you tried using Google to search for:

network icon There was an unexpected error

There is short a Microsoft article http://support.microsoft.com/kb/824923
regarding a message concerning problems with the properties of a
network connection, but their error is this:

An unexpected error occurred.

Then, depending on your situation, there are other posts from various
places with other ideas.

Please provide more precise details, or if this helps figure it out,
let us know.

Jose

Thanks very much. Your link above to the Microsoft article worked.
Everything is back to normal now.

Thanks once again.

Barry
 
Are you sure that's what the error message says?

Is this icon you are clicking in the Taskbar notification area (on the
bottom right), is it in the Networks Connections page or in some
folder?  If I right click my XP Pro SP3 network icon in the tray, I
can choose status, but not properties (from here).

Have you tried using Google to search for:

     network icon There was an unexpected error

There is short a Microsoft articlehttp://support.microsoft.com/kb/824923
regarding a message concerning problems with the properties of a
network connection, but their error is this:

    An unexpected error occurred.

Then, depending on your situation, there are other posts from various
places with other ideas.

Please provide more precise details, or if this helps figure it out,
let us know.

Jose

Thanks very much. Your link above to the Microsoft article worked.
Everything is back to normal now.

Thanks once again.

Barry
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Good for you!
 
I too am having this problem - when I try to access network properties a
"unexpected eror" window is displayed. I tried the procedure outlined in the
article
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/824923 and it didn't solve the problem.

Any suggestions as to where I should look next?

I recently was the victim of a virus that did change some registry settings
but that was cleaned.

Thanks in advance.

Greg
 
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