Windows 10: Internet IS connected, icon in task bar agrees, hovering on it says "no internet...

I'm using Windows 11, installed a couple of weeks ago. As is obviously from being able to post this, I do have an internet connection. The internet icon in the task bar shows a strong connection. But if I hover over the icon, I see two messages, The first says I am connected to my router and it gives the valid router name which is connected to my modem and then to the internet. The second message says "no internet access" and this is preceded by "DIRECT-KZLAPTOP-{mylaptopname}", which I don't recognise but the name it shows for my laptop is correct. I cannot change this with the troubles

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windows 10 internet connection icon on task bar

the internet connection icon insists on showing that I am in airplane mode even though the internet connection is working fine, as it is now.

toggling the airplane mode key on my laptop makes no difference to the icon in the task bar, although it does switch the internet on and off.

it is very annoying not to be able to rely on the icon in the task bar, what is going on ?

thanks for your help.

ps I have tried all the obvious things such as rebooting the machine etc.

 

No Task Bar (hovering) preview, no peeking, no full screen is on hovering over and clicking

When there is no window opened, hovering over taskbar app icons, a preview is shown, but on hovering over preview no full window is opened, and no peeking is done, and also clicking on that small preview, no window opened.

1. And whenever there is a window is opened then hovering over taskbar icons doesn't gives any preview of the window.
2. But it still opens window, on just clicking on task bar icons ( i.e. working fine ).

And when two windows of any app is being opened and if minimized any of them then you can not maximise that minimized window...???

• And when both windows of same app is being minimized then hovering over task bar icon of that app still shows those two previews, but clicking on any preview doesn't provide anything, and thus it all means after minimizing those two window of that app you
  can not recover any of the window.

Basically the problem is I'm not able to open window ( or make full ) from any task bar preview and the First (1.) one also of first paragraph.

 

Persistant internet problems – internet icons, dwindling speed, connection.

Since I got proper wired ADSL I am having several problems when connecting, surfing and downloading from the internet. What the causes might be I don’t know but I’ve listed them below:

1) When I click my Firefox icons, be that on the desktop or on Rocketdock, it can take up to 30 seconds or so to physically open a page. I’m talking just a page itself, not content.

2) If I have just turned the computer on then the page loads pretty quick, that’s a webpage not a physical page. However, the longer I’m on the internet the slower the page load times seem to get.

3) This also manifests itself in downloads. When the computer is first turned on downloads are working fine, however, as time goes on, most downloads dwindle to nothing or all are not downloading.

4) When I click the Internet Explorer icon(desktop or Rocketdock), it opens on my homepage but if I enter an address the address opens in a new Firefox webpage while the IE page stays on my homepage!

Any help and advise would be greatly appreciated.