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Howard

Can someone from MS tell me why the Connection Notification icon in the
system tray is replaced with a static icon in Vista. How do I tell if
there's any activity in my network?
 
Hate to be the bearer of bad news, but that is an artificial animation. The
activity being shown has no relation to the actual activity on the network.
It just cycles through at a periodic rate even if there is no traffic.

Beverly
 
But that's just it. It has no relation to activity on the network. It has a
period timer that causes the lights to go back and forth regardless of any
activity on the network.

This is very different from what we are used to on XP where the animation in
the tray icon was directly linked to activity on the network - xmit packets
would light up one side, recv packets wold light up the other. On Vista,
there could be no activity and the "lights" would still switch back and
forth at the same periodic rate.

Beverly
 
You have a point - it just goes back and forth aimlessly... hmm...

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