internet disconnect

[Ken Williams]

Sometimes when I'm on the net a get an illegal operation will shut down, message.
I click ok and it goes back to the desktop. Where are all the icons that were at the bottom before the message? Where did the 2 little computers that I use to disconnect from the internet, go? How do I disconnect?

Ken

[Jon Light (deceased)]

Ken--nevermind why--sometimes (often) your computer lies.
Instead of clicking 'ok', put your cursor on the blue band at the top of the 'illegal' message, left-click your mouse and drag the message to someplace out of the way and forget about it until you are ready to go off-line (if your computer lets you). Then go off-line your normal way, then click 'ok' on the message, then reboot your computer by hitting 'control', 'alt' and 'delete' together, twice in succession.
In other words, you eventually have to pay for whatever Windows decided you did wrong (nothing! using Windows, I guess) but you can delay it until you are ready to go off-line and deal with it. Of course, this is all just my own experience and may only apply to my system.
Good luck.
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[Jack Stoner]

If you are losing all the icons on the task bar that usually means "Explorer" - not Internet Explorer - had a problem. In that case you have to reboot/restart windows and in many cases the only way to do that is to power off the PC and then power it back up and wait while scandisk runs because of "improper" shutdown.

[Ken Williams]

Jon, I tried what you suggested and it seemed to work fine. Thanks, guys for the help.

Ken