Comments for How do you remove wireless connections in Vista?

Comment from shannon spears on 2010-01-07

2010-01-07T22:39:12Z

HI
My duaghter got a new laptop for x mas, we have wireless at home and all was well and connecting for about 1 week. She left to visit a friend and used their wireless net work. When she came home now it says "local only" and will not connect wirelssly. Only way she can get online is with ethernet cord, what should I do? No matter what I try to do to repair the connection it always say : "local only".

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Comment from Alex on 2009-12-18

2009-12-18T16:01:18Z

Iv just had exactly the same problem and after trawling websites which were less than helpful, installing new drivers and god knows what else, i think iv cracked it. (holds breath)
My issue was the internet not connecting at home having been fine for the past 12mnths, the only change over the past few months was going away to uni and connecting to virgin there...i had set up the network at uni so my laptop had the virgin wireless manager installed on it, this seems to have overridden the windows wireless manager and would not let me get rid of my new default virgin connection on the windows wireless and repeatedly tried connecting to my virgin network.
My solution, uninstall/delete all virgin wireless stuff off my laptop, delete the uni network and add on my home network. it has been working successfully ever since and i am hoping when i get back to uni i can just connect via the windows wireless manager.
Hope this helps someone, after 5days this seems now like a studpidly simple solution.

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Comment from luke on 2009-11-04

2009-11-04T10:13:58Z

vista keeps trying to connect to the old virgin network in my old house. It means if I connect to another network it disconnects and tries to automatically connect to the old network again. I have turned off the connect automatically feature. I have even removed the old network from the list, but it reappears 10 seconds later. What the hell is going on? I don't get these problems on my mac....

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Comment from jim on 2009-10-11

2009-10-11T09:57:03Z

hi
it is good to know how to remove a wireless connection. Thanks for the info it is a great way to learn and exchange ideas and I appreciate your effort to disseminte eimportant information.

I am using wireless connection and well I forgot the security key or password. I know there is a way to retrieve the key password and I did once but I forgot how. Also what I did was create another wireless account without knowing and have reset the router so I can create a new key password which I seem to have forgotten.

Please let me know if it si safe to merge the two wireless names and how can I find the lost security key password.

Also let me know whether I should create a new wirless name if there are two computers using the wireless network symoultaneously.

Your reply and help are much appreciated and thank you in advance.

Jim from lebanon

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Comment from Em on 2009-02-02

2009-02-02T09:53:10Z

I have done everything that you say to.. But I seem to be getting more and more networks, with the same name as mine. I can't get rid of any of them. I want to delete all the networks, not just remove them from my list. It is really frustruating and to top it off, my extender has now stopped working.. eh.. but that is the second problem.. how can I delete the networks and start fresh..???? PLease help.

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Comment from Mike on 2008-11-19

2008-11-20T05:56:50Z

Interestingly, I have a problem that many others have described elsewhere: the UP/DOWN options in the context menu will NOT move the network connection up or down in the list. What I haven't found is how to fix this issue. Any ideas?

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Comment from Mannes on 2008-11-10

2008-11-10T10:30:25Z

I'm unaable to delete one spesific wireless connection in Vista. I'm only able to view the properties. I'm logged on as the administrator.

The connection can only be view and cannot be modified.
Please assist

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Comment from James on 2008-10-31

2008-10-31T17:32:50Z

Is there any way to prevent non-admin users from changing the wireless connection in Vista (i.e. set it to always use some predefined SSID)?

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Comment from Mary Donnelli on 2008-09-03

2008-09-03T12:45:37Z

This isn't really a comment, although I appreciate your articles and read them often. I have done all that your article suggests, but I have a connection that won't leave. It's for another home that I have a wireless connection at and it will only remain on the wireless list in first position which although it is nowhere in range, I believe is messing with my current wireless connection. When it is on there, my connection just goes in and out as it tries to connect, find an IP and so on. I've even tried to delete the instalan program that the second cable provider installed on this computer with no luck as it says that it can't be uninstalled because it is currently running. This is driving me nuts! Any advice would be most welcome. Thanks.

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Comment from peter on 2008-07-20

2008-07-21T05:11:06Z

Thank you Leo for lesson ,for me i thank God that i didn't use vista.
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