To share my internet connection to my notebook and second system (PC , I have shared my internet connection (on PC A) to a network bridge with the wireless connection (ad-hoc) and the LAN-connection to PC B.

Now every time I shut down my laptop or disable the wireless connection, a traytip pops up for 10 seconds, disappears for a second and re-appears again (10sec), over and over and over...

Furthermore, when not having a network bridge, I have a tray icon saying "aquiring network address" which is constantly visible when the LAN-connection is active (it does work though). I found this problem on the forum already, however without a solution.

Figuring the two problems above could have the same cause, I found on the forums that removing Network Local Awareness service causes the "aquiring network address" tray icons, I tried re-installing this service.

It seems I have re-installed Network Local Awareness; those irritating tray icons saying "aquiring network address" are gone. I changed permissions to full on HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Enum\Root\ and imported the attached nla.reg (this is a Dutch XP installation!). Apart from that I added "Nla" to the value Sources in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Eventlog\System. Seems to suffice.

However, when making a new network bridge as described in the previous post and afterward turning off one of the pc's connected to a NIC in the bridge, I still get this traytip: "One of the network cables is disconnected", after 10 seconds I see the bridge resets itself, and once again the traytip is shown.

My laptop (wireless connection) with an out-of-the-box XP installation tries to aquire a network address, but eventually fails.

Kick

NLA re-register doesn't work... Could someone please help me re-installing the Network Location Awareness service? (see nla.txt for info on what I've found, nla_ext.reg shouldn't be necessary afaik)

So much energy invested in reinstalling the component instead of simply reinstalling.

Sorry I can't help you as you can see it's pain in the a?? to do it.

Posting just to tell you to better reinstall.

Thanks for replying. I just thought that since it was removed by nLite, tracing back these steps to re-install it shouldn't be too hard. 'Simply' installing isn't that simple if you have installed & configured Windows, made an image, added users and their personal preferences, made an incremental image, installed and configured all necessary software and made a second incremental image... and now having to do it all over again just for the sake of a tray icon... That's why I thought it would be a bit less 'pain in the a??' to re-install the service

Yeah...1:1

At least your avatar has the meaning

I wish I could help

also, in the description for the SENS Service it says it could give the same issue, -weird icon tray for network

will look like its aquiring address even if not on dhcp

start over mate

SENS is set to Automatic.