If the Wi-Fi icon is not showing on your Taskbar, go to Settings > Personalization > Taskbar. Click ‘Turn system icons on or off’ and enable the Network icon.

The other day, my dial up connection was dropped during a session. Happens periodically. Reclick a link and XP will redial to obtain the link.Since this one dropout in particular, my network ...

Here, toggle on the switch next to Network to always show the network or Wi-Fi icon on the taskbar. In Windows 11 , it is not possible to hide the Network & Speaker icons in the corner overflow area.