Showing posts with label windows 7 support. Show all posts
Showing posts with label windows 7 support. Show all posts
Thursday, January 20, 2011
WLAN AutoConfig Service - Windows 7
How to start WLAN AutoConfig Service in Windows 7?
WLAN AutoConfig service is built-in tool in Windows 7 that can be used to detect and connect to wireless network, of course you need to have wireless adapter installed on computer. This built-in wireless network connection tool is the same as what you use in Windows Vista, and is similar to wireless zero configuration tool in Windows XP.
If you do not activate this service, you need to use the other wireless utility which is provided by wireless adapter manufacturer in order to connect to wireless network.
1) Go to Start and right click Computer. Select and click Manage.
2. Computer Management window will appear. Under Services and Applications, click on Services.
Note 1: This is the other way to get to this Services window: Start -> Control Panel -> Administrative Tools -> Services
3. Scroll down and select WLAN AutoConfig and check whether it is started.
4. Double-click the service and its properties window will appear. If the startup type is not set to automatic, click on the dropdown arrow and change it to Automatic and click Start to start the service if it’s not started. Click OK at last.
Note 2: If you don’t start this service, there wont be Manage wireless networks option available for you to detect or manage wireless network in Network and Sharing Center window unless you use other wireless utility.
Computer with built-in wireless network connection service started:
Computer without built-in wireless network connection service started:
WLAN AutoConfig service is built-in tool in Windows 7 that can be used to detect and connect to wireless network, of course you need to have wireless adapter installed on computer. This built-in wireless network connection tool is the same as what you use in Windows Vista, and is similar to wireless zero configuration tool in Windows XP.
If you do not activate this service, you need to use the other wireless utility which is provided by wireless adapter manufacturer in order to connect to wireless network.
1) Go to Start and right click Computer. Select and click Manage.
2. Computer Management window will appear. Under Services and Applications, click on Services.
Note 1: This is the other way to get to this Services window: Start -> Control Panel -> Administrative Tools -> Services
3. Scroll down and select WLAN AutoConfig and check whether it is started.
4. Double-click the service and its properties window will appear. If the startup type is not set to automatic, click on the dropdown arrow and change it to Automatic and click Start to start the service if it’s not started. Click OK at last.
Note 2: If you don’t start this service, there wont be Manage wireless networks option available for you to detect or manage wireless network in Network and Sharing Center window unless you use other wireless utility.
Computer with built-in wireless network connection service started:
Computer without built-in wireless network connection service started:
Wednesday, January 19, 2011
Delete/Change Wireless Network Profile in Windows 7
Delete/Change Wireless Network Profile in Windows 7
In Windows 7 we can easily delete Wireless Network Profile or we can rearrange the wireless network profile priroty.
In addition to the above, you can also change wireless network profile settings (SSID, security type, network security key, etc) after locating the profiles.
In Windows 7 we can easily delete Wireless Network Profile or we can rearrange the wireless network profile priroty.
In addition to the above, you can also change wireless network profile settings (SSID, security type, network security key, etc) after locating the profiles.
Tuesday, January 18, 2011
How to Disable File Sharing in Windows 7
How to Disable File Sharing in Windows 7
There are two ways to do it, you can disable all file sharing or just disable the file sharing on specific file/folder.
Disable All File Sharing:
1) Go to Start and click on Control Panel.
2) Proceed to click View network status and tasks in Control Panel window.
3) Network and Sharing Center window will appear, proceed to click Change advanced sharing settings.
4) You will be shown Advanced sharing settings window, here you need to locate your current set profile, and turn off following file sharing settings. Click on Save changes at last.
Turn off file and printer sharing
Turn off Public folder sharing (people logged on to this computer can still access these folders)
Turn off password protected sharing
Turn off media streaming
Turn Off File Sharing on Specific File/Folder Only:
1) If you just need to turn off file sharing on specific file/folder, just right click that shared file or folder and select Share with and finally click on Nobody.
Note: After disabling sharing on the folder, if you find out the folder’s properties is still shown shared (because parent folder is still shared). Don’t worry! The files in the folder are not shared anymore. If you don’t believe, test to access from other computers or check the sharing status of file's properties (detailed tab).
There are two ways to do it, you can disable all file sharing or just disable the file sharing on specific file/folder.
Disable All File Sharing:
1) Go to Start and click on Control Panel.
2) Proceed to click View network status and tasks in Control Panel window.
3) Network and Sharing Center window will appear, proceed to click Change advanced sharing settings.
Turn off file and printer sharing
Turn off Public folder sharing (people logged on to this computer can still access these folders)
Turn off password protected sharing
Turn off media streaming
1) If you just need to turn off file sharing on specific file/folder, just right click that shared file or folder and select Share with and finally click on Nobody.
Wednesday, January 5, 2011
How to Disable IPv6 in Windows 7
How to Disable IPv6 in Windows 7?
1) Go to Start -> click on Control Panel -> click on View network status and tasks in Control Panel window -> click on change adapter settings in Network and Sharing Center window.
2) Network Connections window will appear. Here you right click on the network adapter (can be wireless adapter or wired Ethernet adapter) that you wish to disable IPv6 and click Properties.
3) In the network adapter properties window, untick Internet Protocol Version 6 (TCP/IPv6) and click OK.
Note: This method disables IPv6 on your LAN interfaces and connections, but does not disable IPv6 on tunnel interfaces or the IPv6 loop back interface. You need to make change in Windows registry in order to disable the IPv6 on tunnel interfaces.
Note: This method disables IPv6 on your LAN interfaces and connections, but does not disable IPv6 on tunnel interfaces or the IPv6 loop back interface. You need to make change in Windows registry in order to disable the IPv6 on tunnel interfaces.
4) Type regedit in command prompt to launch registry editor, proceed to locate following registry item in Registry editor.
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Tcpip6\Parameters\DisabledComponents
5) If the Disabled Components item is unavailable, you must create it in following format by going to Edit -> New -> DWORD (32-bit) Value and set the value to 0xffffffff (just type ffffffff). This will disable all IPv6 features except the IPv6 loop back interface, finally click OK. Repeat the same process on other network adapters and finally restart computer.
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