Mirch

>Under what context are you trying to make a Power >Users? This machine is used by many ppl, it connect to the inet via a NAT firewall, network connection problems are VERY common so it is needed the icon on tray all the time. > Are you admin of a network? I am > Are you the admin of your system? yep >you simply trying to ward off evil internet spirits by surfing with reduced rights? One of the many reasons that don't come to the point, how can power users have the network connection icon on tray. >Personally if you're an admin why not just give users >the power that they deserve and focus on making >consistant backups. Cause I don't have time and resources to make constant backups. Also Users want to see the icon on tray and I can't give them admin rights. I'll leave Third party programs to show the icon as the last resource.

win2k sp3, all drivers an programs up-to-date Seems power users cant see network icon because it's not allowed to them to disconnect from network (if you rightclick icon have the option "disconnect"). If it where possible the option would be in group policies but there's not such an option. I did try converting the power user to admin. When I logged in the icon was there, so I went to the main admin account again and chage back to power user. Icon doesn't shop up then. Copying the admin profile didn't work also. Most probably it's not possible, I did search and try a lot with no results. Power users can't see the icon on tray, grrr.

I created a power user account on my win2k for daily use but I can't make the network connection icon show up on the tray. Going to the properties of the network conection to check the "show icon" option is not posible cause I don't have the rights and AFAIK there is no way power users get permision to modify the network connection. Anyway the "show icon" box is tiled (but grayed out). When I log as admin the icon is there. Have seached a lot on google and groups but didn't find an answer. Does someone have this same problem? How do I solve it? TIA

Because disabling important services via computer managment can make win2k unable to boot and is hard to fix with your way . Also I didnt mention "delete" but rename. Another reason is that even when I have netbios or netbeui disabled (and not installed in network connections) netbios.sys and nbf.sys load anyway. PD: second time I post this reply. First one didnt show up..

I ve being testing renaming some of the sys files that load on startup (check your ntbtlog.txt) to tweak my win2k box a bit more I could disable the following files without any inconvenience still. netbios.sys (beware if you use netbois) nbf.sys (NetBEUI) msfs.sys (mailsoft file system) mrxsmb.sys (samba) mup.sys rasl2tp.sys (ras=remote admin service) raspptp.sys raspti.sys If all works well in the next days I delete the calls from the registry. Just add .bak to the files. If something goes badly wrong use the recovery console and rename the file back to its original name.