Vista - Loses wireless when coming out of standby - must reboot

This is an ordinary e1405 core duo with 2GB RAM, Vista Home
Premium, and nothing unusual. It's worked perfectly for months.

Suddenly, its wireless network functionality has become a
problem. When it comes out of standby it may or may not connect.
Releasing and renewing makes no difference. Signal is excellent.

If it's ok when it comes back to life, or after I reboot, it's
solid as a rock.

I cannot find the "repair" function that might have helped in XP.

What could be broken, missing, etc? What other Vista tool can I
use instead of a time-consuming reboot?

HELP!

Right-click the network icon in the notification area of your taskbar, and
choose "Diagnose and repair".

Try this. In Control Panel\Network and Sharing Center\Manage Wireless
Networks, right-click on your Network of choice, and choose Properties.
Uncheck "Connect to a more preferred Network if available".

"notaguru" <notaguru-obvious@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:f6ut1j$imb$1@registered.motzarella.org...
> This is an ordinary e1405 core duo with 2GB RAM, Vista Home Premium, and
> nothing unusual. It's worked perfectly for months.
>
> Suddenly, its wireless network functionality has become a problem. When it
> comes out of standby it may or may not connect. Releasing and renewing
> makes no difference. Signal is excellent.
>
> If it's ok when it comes back to life, or after I reboot, it's solid as a
> rock.
>
> I cannot find the "repair" function that might have helped in XP.
>
> What could be broken, missing, etc? What other Vista tool can I use
> instead of a time-consuming reboot?
>
> HELP!

That network icon was missing -- I found it.

And I followed your other advice also. Time will tell...

THANKS!


dean-dean wrote:
> Right-click the network icon in the notification area of your taskbar,
> and choose "Diagnose and repair".
>
> Try this. In Control Panel\Network and Sharing Center\Manage Wireless
> Networks, right-click on your Network of choice, and choose Properties.
> Uncheck "Connect to a more preferred Network if available".