Comments on: Windows 7: “No Internet Access” with Yellow Warning Icon

By: Jeremy Adams

Jeremy Adams — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 17:41:09 +0000

Got my version of this problem fixed. I connected to the internet just fine, Network and Sharing center said I had Internet, but the notification Icon had a red X. Turned out that while Cisco VPN client was installed, the network icon would show a red X(I never tried to connect to the VPN while it was installed though) SO, if you are having trouble like this, you could try uninstalling or updating any VPN clients that you have. I only needed it to connect to one of my schools alternate wireless networks so i uninstalled.

By: Hector Sosa

Hector Sosa — Mon, 14 Feb 2011 07:42:45 +0000

I have this horrible problem, i go from anger to sadness, and viceversa ! i have tried commands in cmd, enabling/disabling network adapter, modifying ipv4/ipv6 settings, put to static ip, disabled ip helper, run in safe mode without solution, i dont have bonjour service, disabling windows firewall, windows defender, disabling windows automatic driver installation, also i have upgraded bios, resetting bios, have reset cmos, formatted from zero and all the memory of hard drive with 3 differents windows 7 disk and one with xp, i have 64 bits desk and dont want to go 32 bits because my 4gb of ram, either way i dont think this is a problem, i have runned windows troubleshooting, i have tried ubuntu, i can conect from my lap, i just have not tried wireless because i dont have an adapter for this, but i have buyed a pci express lan card, which is correctly installed by its driver disc, but nothing of this have fixed my ! this is ridicule! what could be happening , some weeks ago i could connect fine to the internet, because it is conected to the lan, but no to the internet now! and more before it happened to me one time, but after formatting it got fixed, but now i dont know wat else to do ! help me please!

By: anthonie

anthonie — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 09:10:00 +0000

I have a similar problem. I have a HP laptop with W7. And I also can’t connect to the internet but my other roommates can. My iphone couldn’t also connect to the wirelles internet. My laptop can connect to the internet on other locations. I already tried every sollution but nothing has worked so far. I disabled my anti virus firmware and my firewall. I unplugged my modem/router a 1000 times,my network connections settings are all correct ,I reinstalled al my drivers, I even reinstalled W7 again, but I still got no connection. Does anyone has sollution already?

By: MFB

MFB — Sun, 07 Nov 2010 05:41:23 +0000

What consistently worked for me is this:
1. Open network and sharing center
2. Click on the icon of your current connected network. It could be a house, bench, etc
3. Click on merge or delete network locations
4. At this time, disconnect from your network so you can delete all locations.
5. Delete all locations
6. Reconnect to your network again. You can either ignore homegroup by cancel or choose your preference.
7. You can now see that the disconnected issue has been resolved.

This has worked several times already for me and I just do it when the issue reappears. Typically, networks you’ve logged into from past connections are automatically stored here. When this gets to around 3 or more, thats when the error appears.

Im using a lenovo ideapad y460 with win 7 64 home premium os

By: Laura

Laura — Sun, 03 Oct 2010 16:21:31 +0000

I have Mcafee security center…. there is not option for “link scanner” is it the “real-time scanner” that i have to disable on mine?

By: Anthony

Anthony — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 06:07:54 +0000

Hello, I had the same problem. If it’s a new pc and you have Norton Internet Protection installed, you must register it first. Try to register Norton, reboot, and the problem is solved. Good luck.

By: John

John — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 09:49:09 +0000

Here, in the UK, windows 7 is still turning off the Internet connection with no reason to do so. Also, keep getting a ArcSoft Connect Daemon Has Stopped Working message whenever I start up.

By: bobatious

bobatious — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 18:07:53 +0000

There are various possible causes for the false alarm.

Ironically, in my case the cause was windows firewall itself that caused the “no internet access” flag in spite of all networking functioning properly (otherwise).

If you are within a protected network, one option is to turn off windows firewall. Alternatively, adjusting the allowed programs resolves the problem. Specifically which service/port the “internet access check” is searching for would be a helpful detail, but I did not narrow that down just yet.

By: JC

JC — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 16:45:06 +0000

I am having this problem, I have completely uninstalled AVG, i have no other anti virus software.. I have tried alot of different settings. I am using windows 7 on sony vaio NW20EF/s

By: Pamela

Pamela — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 03:25:56 +0000

I’ve had this yellow icon issue since upgrading to windows 7 on 4/03/2010. Microsoft, HP, and my ISP provider could not solve this. Microsoft had me do factory recoveries and upgrading over and over, even microsoft network engineer did clean installation.Don’t do any of those . I had a computer specialist come to my house to solve the problem.His laptop when he set it up to access my home web page showed the same. Only thing we had in common was windows 7. I was trying to also go wireless thinking that would solve it but it still had problems.So betweem my computer specialist and my ISP provider solution is…..MTU VALUE NEEDS TO BE SET LOWER..windows 7 can only go to 1500. MY computer was set to 1492 so when my isp provider lowered it to 1478 PROBLEM SOLVED. That then fixed the gateway. Now I have wireless and lan connections.