Wireless Signal Strength Bar

[ArtShapiro]

I'll throw out a question in lieu of lots of Googling.

This weekend, I converted my wife's X61 from Vista Ultimate to Win 7 Home Premium. (Getting off Vista is like the proverbial breath of fresh air.) The installation and the subsequent Lenovo updates, plus the installation of Office and various programs, went unbelievably smoothly. M$ seems to have done a fine job this time.

The only real problem was getting the machine to deal with my big industrial network printer, a Lexmark Optra S 1855 rebadged as a Unisys UDS9718. But Lexmark had some generic Postscript 3 drivers that they said would work, and that seems to be the case.

I'm only having one minor issue, at least right now, and perhaps this will be a known problem. The wireless icon down in the tray is a series of five rectangles increasing in height. Normally some or all of them turn from white to green reflecting the signal strength, and of course in my home, on my own network, the normal display is full-on five green rectangles.

With Windows 7, they don't turn green. Hovering the mouse gives the expected "excellent", "very good", "fair", etc. display but obviously the visual white/green display would be more immediate and convenient.

Has anyone fought this minor snag yet? (Are other people seeing the same thing?)

Art

[K0LO]

Art:

What you see is normal - the bars are always white.

[SHoTTa35]

I think you are comparing Windows 7 display vs some application that you used to use the manage your wireless. That's now it normally is in Windows 7 unless you use some other app to manage your wireless connections.