network connections gone?!

Hello.


On an Acer laptop running Vista Home Premium, I have a strange
problem.
When I right-click the 'Network' icon on the desktop and pick
'properties'
from the context menu, I come to the Network and Sharing Center.
On the left side in the window, I can click on 'Manage network
connections' among the
listed Tasks and the Network Connections window comes up.
Normally, there are icons here for every connection (e.g. if I have
both wireless and a lan adapter that are available to use for
connecting to the local network,
it would typically list two icons).
Internet works fine, but I miss the ability to right-click the
network
connection to disable/enable it for instance.


Does anyone know how to resolve this problem or what might cause it?


Greetings and thanks in advance for any suggestions, Niek

Hello Niek, so if I understand you correctly, you are not getting
listed any connections (e.g. your wireless or your lan network
connection) under "manage network connections". Check to see if your
wireless network card hasn't been physically turned off: there may be
a switch located on the side of the laptop that control this.
HTH

"aahfong [mcse]" <aahfong@googlemail.com> wrote in message
news:33eace5a-1731-4c12-9e8c-0b33e59fed93@g31g2000yqc.googlegroups.com...
> Hello Niek, so if I understand you correctly, you are not getting
> listed any connections (e.g. your wireless or your lan network
> connection) under "manage network connections". Check to see if your
> wireless network card hasn't been physically turned off: there may be
> a switch located on the side of the laptop that control this.
> HTH

Please QUOTE the post you bare replying to.

Thank you.

On 30 jul, 10:33, "aahfong [mcse]" <aahf...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> Hello Niek, so if I understand you correctly, you are not getting
> listed any connections (e.g. your wireless or your lan network
> connection) under "manage network connections". Check to see if your
> wireless network card hasn't been physically turned off: there may be
> a switch located on the side of the laptop that control this.
> HTH

Internet is working fine, so the network connections (I can use both
the wireless
as well as the lan connection) can't be switched off.
The only issue is that windows somehow doesn't show them anymore when
I attempt
to manage my network connections from the network and sharing center.

Gordon wrote:
>
> "aahfong [mcse]" <aahfong@googlemail.com> wrote in message
> news:33eace5a-1731-4c12-9e8c-0b33e59fed93@g31g2000yqc.googlegroups.com...
>> Hello Niek, so if I understand you correctly, you are not getting
>> listed any connections (e.g. your wireless or your lan network
>> connection) under "manage network connections". Check to see if your
>> wireless network card hasn't been physically turned off: there may be
>> a switch located on the side of the laptop that control this.
>> HTH
>
> Please QUOTE the post you bare replying to.
>
> Thank you.

Err - That <sigh> is a good suggestion Err.