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Privacy policy. Support for Windows Vista without any service packs installed ended on April 13, I am shocked to see how many folks have had trouble getting their vista laptops to connect with their secured home wireless networks. That is my problem. For a year we had an unsecured wireless network — my pc is running XP, my laptop is running XP, my Tivo network adapter can get on and my husband's vista laptop could.

Then I secured the network. All devices except my husband's vista laptop can get on the network. Changed the ssid and for one night the vista laptop could make a new connection to the network.

But next night it couldn't. Have wpa-2 encryption, the linksys router has an option for both tkip and aes, I've tried tkip or aes on the vista laptop — neither works. The vista laptop says it's connected — the signal is strong, but limited access.

This vista laptop can connect with any neighbor's unsecured networks — just not our secure one — even with all settings and passphrase matching and being entered appropriately. I've spent hours this week trying. I poured through this thread and tried a few of the ideas — to no avail. I did unselect ITP6 — but that didn't make a difference. In addition, I have enabled our Mac Address Filtering and have our two wireless computers on there as the only allowed computers.

But from what I am reading elsewhere, anyone can access my wireless network? I know this is not the best security but I thought we had at least something. When I search all available wireless networks in my neighborhood, it does say that our network is a Security-Enabled Network.

Can someone let me know if we are completely exposed right now for anyone to get onto our network? John : Did you hear of a solution? I have the same issue. Thanks Joanne. To fix a problem of not getting connected by wireless above 2 options are suggested everywhere and somehow I don't see both the options in my laptop. I used vista. My computer does detects networks but I can't connect to it.

A message appear it does take longer than usually. I found it quite harder to set up rather than xp. Until today it still unable to connect. Using a desktop alternatively. I have a dell xps laptop with windows vista home premium 32 bit sp1. John : I have the same problem John, Would appreciate if you got a solution. I just installed a lynksis Valet router.

I have checked the "automatically connect.. I have talked to lynkis tewch couple times, they remotely controlled my lkaptop to try to fix but t no avail.. Oh yes, Once i am connected i stay connected just fine but it wont auto-connect…tks! I had the same thing on my laptop with Vista home — I could not see or connect to my wirless router. I wish the Vista-help would have been more helpfull….

When i try to connect to wireless network with the Router, it throwing the error message ha " Unable to Connect to the Networks".

I have a Netgear wireless router. I have four computers hooked up to the router via ethernet wire 2 XP destops and two Vista laptops. When using the wired connection, the Vista laptop can see and access all computers on the network, however, when I switch the laptop to wireless, it only sees the other Vista laptop.

The laptop can access the internet while wired or wireless. I am using WEP security. Can anyone tell me what to do to get the laptop to see the entire network wirelessly? It's an acer laptop using windows vista…. I still can't connect to my wireless router, my dad, my sister even my ps3 that is far away from the router can go online! I am in serious need of help with my internet connection. Initially I couldn't connect at all- though I had a strong signal strength, typing in the network password was NOT gaining me access to the internet.

All the time, signal strength for my network is very strong and I am able to get on the internet. The problem is that the access fades in and out inexplicably, all the time.

It will work perfectly for a few minutes and then I will get the yellow exclamation mark and the "Limited access" sign, and then it will reconnect and work perfectly again for a few minutes.

Literally this happens all the time. It's very frustrating. I don't understand: if I authenticated successfully, why is it fading in and out? I replaced the mb on a Toshiba ms and now I can't see the wireless card. I recovered the os to factory condition and have the latest driver but I still can't see the card. The card is a Realtek e. Hi, I have vista and I"m trying to add wap2 security to my wireless network. I go to my router's setup page and add a password, which then appears to be saved for all of the wireless networks that are set up on my computer that's what it looks like in "Manage Wireless Networks".

Anyway, my problem is that then when I try to connect, it now asks me for username and password. But I don't know my username. There is nowhere on the router's set-up page where I can specify a username. Is it the name of the wireless network? That's not working. Any ideas on how to find out what my username is?

Did you mean ad hoc PC-PC network? Since Windows Vista, 7 it is not able to connect automatically to ad hoc network. There is a couple of articles about how to connect to ad hoc network in Vista, Windows 7. So I recommend you some specialized tool. Maxidix Wifi Suite, for examle can do it my choice , and everything works as I would like it to. Wish I help you. This problem had me stumped today for a few hours. After reading this thread and trying a few solutions which didn't pan out, I finally got it fixed.

Make sure to keep a note of any keys that you might be using otherwise you will have to regenerate the key and change all your other network devices. Be aware that your current connection to it will be severed — and if that computer usually connects using WPA2 information, Vista will throw up 'settings don't match' errors. This is okay if you need to use it in the mean time, you can delete the stored security settings and change it to an Open non-encrypted network.

Your network should show up as Open. Check that your network is not present, and if it is, delete it this is just clearing any settings which Vista might have saved. Click Apply. Your connection will once again be severed. Your network should appear, if you hover over you should now see WPA2 or your chosen security type. Double click and hopefully it will now ask you for the security key! I believe this problem is something inherent in Vista, it incorrectly stores the security type of the network and won't refresh that data, and doesn't attempt to ask the network what security it is using when you try to connect.

I need help bad!! I changed from Bellsouth internet for my laptop and my laptop would secure and was not a problem. I switched to charter communications internet and since then I purchased laptops for my children.

My childrens laptops are Dell and they use Windows 7, they connect fine secure, but my windows Vista Acer laptop will not connect secure. I live in an apartment and have grown tired of everybody being on my internet and I can barely use it myself due to an influx of people. I called charter and they went through the motions again of trying to secure the internet on my laptop.

What is wrong? Does Bellsouth have a hold on my laptop or what? I am using Netgear from Charter and it accepts my password but it keeps saying the connection has timed out or error due to user. I just don't know what to do. If anyone can help I would be grateful. Everybody else here can see and access my router. But Vista says "cannot find any wireless networks" I don't have the "Manually connect to a wireless Network" option shown above".

Vista used to give the option for a wireless connect. But now the only options are Broadband and Dial Up. What has to be changed to make the wireless option available? Had to reinstall the factory VISTA operating system and now need to get back on a wireless network at home. Any suggestions? Problem: Red Cross in Wireless Lan overview and not able to connect worked before nothing changed. Hi, I have a toshiba laptop running vista.

I can connect to the wireless connection, however it is local only and will not allow me on the internet. All other laptops are fine apart from two toshiba laptops. Anybody aware of a problem with toshiba that is preventing me from a full connection. I was in a different house last year and was able to connect to a different wireless connection no problem. I have tried various things from support websites, such as uninstalling and reinstalling drivers but nothing seems to work.

Any help would be greatly appreciated as i have spent hours trying to fix this problem. John : Hey John… have the same problem… did you ever find a solution?? I have a unique problem. But the problem is that the XP cannot access the net. Please HELP by letting me know what are the settings i should have.

I have done all the usual suggestions. Thanks in advance Roy. My computer is an hp pavillion dv I have read over all of the post and figured out a few things. Windows Vista for many ppl here will connect to the secured wireless router but it won't be able to access the internet.

I have had the same problem here. There are three computers at my house, two are windows 7, and the other one is windows vista. Need more help? Expand your skills. Get new features first. Was this information helpful? Yes No. Thank you! Any more feedback? The more you tell us the more we can help. Can you help us improve? Resolved my issue. I didn't give it much thought since I knew Microsoft was killing support in a few months. So last week before I moved iTunes to my new Dell Inspiron laptop I tried going online one last time to update everything but still nothing; even now as I write this, nothing.

So, does anyone know what happened back in October some update perhaps that may have caused this problem? I'm willing to give this Registry edit a try but I would rather use a confirmed process rather than some off-the-cuff attempt that works for some but not for others. What I don't need is someone pretending to be a Microsoft Engineer or someone with no know-how giving help that isn't the solution but more of the problem. I apologize for the snarky comment but I've grown very tired of being led around on wild goose chases on these forums by people who don't have a clue to what's going on but continuously pat themselves on their backs with their impressive Microsoft credentials and useless help from the comfort of their parent's basement.

Jesse and Roxy. Hey everyone, I need help fixing a Windows machine. I use Apples, l I really know nothing about troublshooting Windows, I know how to use it just fine, but thats it. In all honesty, I don't even know if this is a Vista problem, or a hardware problem. My girlfriend has a 2 year old HP laptop with Vista.

She just got Comcast internet. They both worked fine for 2 days. Then 2 nights ago, her machine just shut off for no reason, she booted it back up, and now no internet. My Mac works fine, so I know its not the Airport. I unplugged the Airport, reset the modem, and the HP, plugged it in directly, still no internet. I plugged the MacBook in directly, works fine. So I isolated it to the HP laptop.

The wierd thing is her computer shows full signal, excellent connection, when connected to the Airport, or directly -- it just doesn't work.