I have a laptop with Vista Business SP1. I move from network to network a lot. I am constantly struggling with the network identification 'feature'. Every time I plug in, even if I've been there before, I usually end up disabling/enabling the network card in Device Manager. This is extremely tedious. With XP I plugged in and DHCP gave me an IP. With Vista I only turnthe laptopon when I absolutely have to because it's such a chore getting connected.If you're going to tell me to edit the registry, turn off IPV6 or update my drivers, don't. I tried that, it didn't help. Reading these pages it seems that I may ge tthe result I want by turning of the NLA service, although that leaves my network icon with a red cross. I find it useful to know when there's traffic, so the XP style lights were useful. They've gonefor some reasonbut it's good to know when I have a proper connection.If someone can point me at the answer I'll be grateful, I did do a bit of searching but not thoroughly enough to know it isn't here.

I got the answer elsewhere. The only way is to break the network icon as I thought. Why can't Windows let me run the computer the way I want?