The Berryware Blog

Windows Tray Area Network Icon Cross December 2, 2011

For a while my laptop has been showing a red cross over the LAN connection icon in the Windows tray area. I’m constantly connected via a wireless adapter so my physical LAN connection is not used. It appeared to be the latter that was causing the X to display over the network icon but I couldn’t figure out why until yesterday. Turns out that my network connection associated with my LAN was set to “public” while the wireless was set to “private”. The solution was as simple as switching from “public” to “private” and the ugly X icon went away… Still not sure why it behaves that way though!