Feb 11, 2015 To turn on/off the Wireless in Windows 7 using the hardware switch On most the the Acer Laptops there is a hardware switch located on the front of the laptop which has a little picture of a satellite dish next to a slider switch. The other key usually has a small icon to indicate wireless. Dec 01, 2011 Win 7 Home premium: When I boot into windows, WiFi signal will spin as if it is looking for a site; however it will not connect. It shows a list of Wifi routers. There are three possible connections that I can use and a listing of over a dozen secured routers from ATT and Comcast.
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If you want the freedom to work anywhere in your house, you need to go wireless. Here’s how you set up your own wireless home network.
First, buy a router with built-in wireless, that’s how most of today’s routers are built, so that’s not much of a problem. Then you need to set up the wireless router to start broadcasting and receiving information to and from your own PC.
The set-up software you get with every router is going to provide information about network name and security. Many routers include an installation program to help you change these settings. Other routers contain built in software that you can access with Windows’ own browser, Internet Explorer. Remember to write down these settings as you type them into your routers software. That way they will be easy to remember when you tackle the next section.
Next you need to set up Windows 7 on each wirelessly connected PC to receive the signal and send information back as well.
Start by turning on your computer’s wireless adapter. Some laptops leave it turned off to save power. Then open the start menu, click control panel and choose Network and Internet, click Network and Sharing Center. Now click connect to network and a pop up window jumps from the wireless signal icon in your task bar.
Don’t be alarmed if you see several wireless networks listed, they may belong to your neighbors. When you hover your mouse pointer over a network’s name, Windows 7 sums up the connection four ways — name, signal strength, security type and radio type. SSID is also there. For some reason, Windows likes to repeat the networks name here too. Click on the network name you entered into your wireless router and then click connect. Or if you’re in a coffee shop or airport, click the name of their wireless network. Now, enter the wireless network’s password, if needed. You might have to ask a clerk for it. If for some reason Windows 7 doesn’t list your wireless networks name, there could be two culprits.
One, it’s just a low signal strength. Unfortunately networks are cursed with a limited range, so you might have to move your computer closer to the wireless router. Keep moving and click the refresh icon until your network appears.
The second option, the network is hiding. For security reasons, some wireless networks don’t broadcast their names. So Windows lists an invisible networks name as other network. To connect to this unknown wireless network, you must know its real name. Ask the coffee shop attendant or airport clerk for the network’s name. Then type it in and you should be able to connect.
Problem description
Consider this scenario. Several wireless configuration utilities are installed on a Windows XP-based computer. You want to use only the Windows XP Wireless Zero Configuration service.
This article helps you stop the Broadcom Wireless LAN Tray Service, Dell wireless WLAN Tray Service, the Intel PROSet/Wireless SSO Service, and the Intel PROSet/Wireless WiFi Service, and enable the Windows XP Wireless Zero Configuration service and set it to automatic.
To have us fix this problem for you, go to the “Fix it for me” section. If you would rather fix this problem yourself, go to the “Let me fix it myself” section.
Fix it for me
To fix this problem automatically, click the Fix this problem link. Then click Run in the File Download dialog box, and follow the steps in this wizard.
Note this wizard may be in English only; however, the automatic fix also works for other language versions of Windows.
Note If you are not on the computer that has the problem, you can save the automatic fix to a flash drive or to a CD, and then you can run it on the computer that has the problem.
Now go to the 'Did this fix the problem?' section.
Let me fix it myself
To turn on the wireless zero configuration service in Windows XP, follow these steps:
Click
Start, click
Run, type
Services.msc, and then click
OK.In the right pane, locate and double-click
Intel® PROSet/Wireless SSO Service. If the service is not installed, go to step 5.In the
Startup type
box, click
Disabled, and then click
Apply.Under
Server status, click
Stop, and then click
OK.In the right pane, locate and double-click
Intel® PROSet/Wireless WiFi Service. If the service is not installed, go to step 8.In the
Startup type
box, click
Disabled, and then click
Apply.Under
Server status, click
Stop, and then click
OK.In the right pane, locate and double-click
Dell wireless WLAN Tray Service. If the service is not installed, go to step 11.In the
Startup type
box, click
Disabled, and then click
Apply.Under
Server status, click
Stop, and then click
OK.In the right pane, locate and double-click
WZC.In the
Startup type
box, click
Automatic, and then click
Apply.Under
Server status, click
Start, and then click
OK.On the
File
menu, click
Exit.
Now go to the 'Did this fix the problem?' section.
Did this fix the problem?
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Check whether the problem is fixed. If the problem is fixed, you are finished with this article. If the problem is not fixed, you can contact support.