I found a very similar issue with my wife's corporate computer on our home
network.
The issue turned out to be the Intel wireless application installed which
overrides the Windows wireless applet. After installing a driver update
from Intel - this issue was resolved.
Had to use Locksmith to get admin access, but that is another story.
"M Skabialka" <mskabialka@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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Quote:
>I won't be over there for a couple of weeks so will continue this thread
>then - or maybe a new thread if this is buried too deep. Thanks for the
>suggestions so far...
>
> "Lem" <lemp40@xxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:eQWT%23ezSJHA.1164@xxxxxx Quote:
>>M Skabialka wrote: Quote:
>>> I think this is the help menu I found:
>>>
>>> 1. Open the Command Prompt window by clicking the Start button ,
>>> clicking All Programs, clicking Accessories, and then clicking Command
>>> Prompt.
>>>
>>> 2. Type netsh wlan add filter networktype=network type.
>>>
>>> Where network type is either adhoc or infrastructure.
>>>
>>>
>>> I was unsure of the network type (still am) so tried both adhoc
>>> and infrastructure but neither worked. Did this mess things up?
>>>
>>
>> Could have. You shouldn't need to add filters. An "ad hoc" network is a
>> computer-to-computer network; this won't work with your router. I don't
>> know what the command you typed here will do because you omitted the
>> actual filter itself (i.e., permission={allow|block| denyall}).
>>
>> To see how things are configured:
>> In an account with administrative privileges, open a Command Prompt
>> window. Then type "netsh show all" [without quotes, press Enter]
>> Copy/paste the results into your next post.
>>
>> Or you could delete the profile and start over (but I think you have to
>> use netsh for this task).
>>
>> netsh show profiles [to make sure you get the correct ProfileName]
>>
>> netsh delete profile name=ProfileName
>>
>> --
>> Lem -- MS-MVP
>>
>> To the moon and back with 2K words of RAM and 36K words of ROM.
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_Guidance_Computer
>> http://history.nasa.gov/afj/compessay.htm >
>