"Pipboy" <no@email.invalid> wrote in message
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> 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.
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Jon