When you have a network connection that is not connected on Windows7 machine (even if your main connection works fine) you get red X on Network activity icon.To reproduce install virtual pc or another virtual machine app like virtualbox and you'll notice Network activity icon gets a red X.Is this by design? Although connection of main adapter works fine it is quite annoying to see a red X.nLL

How many network adapter is installed on the computer? Usually, there is no red X on Network activity icon if the connection is fine. You can temporarily disable all other useless network adapters (Also remove the virtual PC and Virtual box software) and only keep using the main connection adapter for a test. Please also upgrade the main connection adapter driver. If the issue persists, please capture a screenshot of "Network and Sharing Center" window for research. Please upload the picture to Skydrive (www.skydrive.live.com) and share the link to me. Thanks, Novak

When there is no virtual adapter + no Incoming VPN setup everything is ok. Call me obsessive :) but it is annoying to see a red X on your networkd icon.I also would like to use my virtual machines without seeing red X .nLL

Hi, Does the issue occur without VPN? After starting the Virtual PC, please open "Settings" option in Virtual PC. In "Networking" option, please change the network adapter for a test, such as "Shared Networking", Internal Network. If the issue persists, please collect the following information for research. 1. Click the Start Button and type "cmd" (without quotation marks) in the open box. 2. Right click CMD and click "Run as Administrator" option, and then click Yes. 3. In the open command window, input the following command and press Enter Key after it. Ipconfig /all >C:\pingresult.txt 4. Please open Computer and navigate to C:\ folder to find the "pingresult.txt" file and post the result here. Thanks, Novak

Since i posted this question i have stopped using windows 7..nLL

We too have the red x. Not in VM or anything extraordinary.Plain vanilla Win7 Home Prem.Following is the ping dump requested.We would appreciate an insight into this issue.Windows IP Configuration Host Name . . . . . . . . . . . . : AMDx64ChoMain Primary Dns Suffix . . . . . . . : Node Type . . . . . . . . . . . . : Hybrid IP Routing Enabled. . . . . . . . : Yes WINS Proxy Enabled. . . . . . . . : No DNS Suffix Search List. . . . . . : hsd1.co.comcast.net. Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection: Connection-specific DNS Suffix . : hsd1.co.comcast.net. Description . . . . . . . . . . . : NVIDIA nForce Networking Controller Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-E0-4D-1F-E7-71 DHCP Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : Yes Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes IPv6 Address. . . . . . . . . . . : 2002:4b47:f39a:0:99d3:66d2:8f05:9b3c(Preferred) Temporary IPv6 Address. . . . . . : 2002:4b47:f39a:0:61f2:2f16:5d61:f0b1(Preferred) Link-local IPv6 Address . . . . . : fe80::99d3:66d2:8f05:9b3c%10(Preferred) IPv4 Address. . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.148(Preferred) Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0 Lease Obtained. . . . . . . . . . : Saturday, November 07, 2009 5:09:46 PM Lease Expires . . . . . . . . . . : Sunday, November 08, 2009 5:09:46 PM Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : fe80::222:6bff:fe68:83de%10 192.168.1.1 DHCP Server . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.1 DHCPv6 IAID . . . . . . . . . . . : 234938445 DHCPv6 Client DUID. . . . . . . . : 00-01-00-01-12-81-0F-96-00-E0-4D-1F-E7-71 DNS Servers . . . . . . . . . . . : 68.87.85.102 68.87.69.150 NetBIOS over Tcpip. . . . . . . . : Enabled Tunnel adapter isatap.hsd1.co.comcast.net.: Media State . . . . . . . . . . . : Media disconnected Connection-specific DNS Suffix . : hsd1.co.comcast.net. Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Microsoft ISATAP Adapter Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-00-00-00-00-00-00-E0 DHCP Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : No Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes Tunnel adapter Local Area Connection* 11: Connection-specific DNS Suffix . : Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Teredo Tunneling Pseudo-Interface Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-00-00-00-00-00-00-E0 DHCP Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : No Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes IPv6 Address. . . . . . . . . . . : 2001:0:4137:9e50:205b:19e6:b4b8:c65(Preferred) Link-local IPv6 Address . . . . . : fe80::205b:19e6:b4b8:c65%12(Preferred) Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : NetBIOS over Tcpip. . . . . . . . : Disabled

Same happened to me a few months ago,it wasnt really bothering me tho cuz i had the connection working fine,but one day i decided to look through adpters settings then i noticed there were 2 more adapters enabled besides the one i use to connect to internet,i just disabled those two(local area connection and wireless) then on the next connection dialed it worked just fine and the icon was OK...so if any of u have other adapter than the one u use for internet enabled try to disable them and then connect to internet to see if it works for ya..All my best,RR

I had this issue after updating my wireless adapter driver. I got it fixed once I removed Cisco VPN client which was installed and connecting normally, but wasn't showing the disabled cisco adapter in the network adapters page.