I've just moved from an excellent, extremely user-friendly Windows XP computer system to a Windows 7 system.
When I started with XP, I was advised as a matter of good practice to disable the Network Connection when I shut down my computer. Finding the Local Area Connection file to do so and to enable when I switched back on was easy. In the Notification Area (bottom right) of the XP desktop, an icon appeared when I enabled the LA Connection showing the speed, etc.
Windows 7 does not appear to have this facility and when I did disable the LA Connection I was treated as if I had done something wrong - getting it enabled by means of the Trouble-shooter. Is this Windows 7 so backward that disabling is not encouraged or have I missed the way to do it?
Don't tell me to go to Local Area Connection - I can't find one.
ipconfig
command to get this information if you're confident enough with networking and the command-line.