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 Oct 17 2006, 05:38 AM
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MSFN Expert  Group: Members Posts: 1091 Joined: 22-March 06 From: Canada Member No.: 91588 OS: Vista Home x86 
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Whenever I boot up my laptop (or desktop) they both connect to my wireless network, I have internet, but... One stupid little problem I am having. The wireless network icon will sit on the "acquiring IP address" picture.
Even though it has an IP, it will keep doing that with the little circle thing. I have tried a multitude of things, manual IP, turning off the checkmark in the properties of the adapter that says: "notify me when this connection has limited or no connectivity" I have even tried just using the basic windows wireless software. But nothing works. If I turn off that check mark, it fixes it until I reboot, then I have to turn it back and so on. Anyone else have this problem? Or possibly have a fix?    EDIT ---------------------------  i just figured it out to anyone having this problem, do not disable the "Network Location Awareness" service. that turned out to be the culprit
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Oct 17 2006, 12:17 PM
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Scroll up - see the Google bar?  Group: Super Moderator Posts: 5055 Joined: 30-September 04 From: Vancouver, Canada Member No.: 32464 OS: Windows 7 x64
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QUOTE (Cygnus @ Oct 17 2006, 04:38 AM)  i just figured it out to anyone having this problem, do not disable the "Network Location Awareness" service. that turned out to be the culprit Yup.... I had this problem a while back. Same problem - same solution. More reason to not disable services... 
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Oct 17 2006, 12:35 PM
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MSFN Expert Group: Members Posts: 1091 Joined: 22-March 06 From: Canada Member No.: 91588 OS: Vista Home x86
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lol ah well, im just glad its fixed now.
its really the only problem i have had with disabling services. (i need to disable cuz my laptop's are really slow with XP stock lol) |
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Jul 25 2007, 03:46 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 112 Joined: 27-July 04 Member No.: 25577 |
ah, this could be my problem, but how do I go about turning the NLA back on?
TIA -=Mark=- |
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Jul 25 2007, 03:51 PM
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Scroll up - see the Google bar? Group: Super Moderator Posts: 5055 Joined: 30-September 04 From: Vancouver, Canada Member No.: 32464 OS: Windows 7 x64
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Start->Run.
Type in services.msc. Scroll down until you see the Network Location Awareness service. Right-click for properties. Make sure it's set to Automatic, and then hit Start. Hope this helps. 
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Jul 25 2007, 04:03 PM
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QUOTE (Zxian @ Jul 25 2007, 04:51 PM) Start->Run. Type in services.msc. Scroll down until you see the Network Location Awareness service. Right-click for properties. Make sure it's set to Automatic, and then hit Start. Hope this helps. woot!! that was sure a fast response. I'll let you know tomorrow how things go. Thanks again -=Mark=- |
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Aug 5 2007, 11:56 PM
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QUOTE (MarkJohnson @ Jul 25 2007, 05:03 PM) QUOTE (Zxian @ Jul 25 2007, 04:51 PM) Start->Run. Type in services.msc. Scroll down until you see the Network Location Awareness service. Right-click for properties. Make sure it's set to Automatic, and then hit Start. Hope this helps. woot!! that was sure a fast response. I'll let you know tomorrow how things go. Thanks again -=Mark=- Sweet, it worked like a charm. well for a few minutes anyway. then it cut back out. it seems my router went bad. but only the wireless part. bought a new router and all is 100% again. Thanks once again for the help. -=Mark=- |
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Aug 6 2007, 03:46 AM
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Scroll up - see the Google bar? Group: Super Moderator Posts: 5055 Joined: 30-September 04 From: Vancouver, Canada Member No.: 32464 OS: Windows 7 x64
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Glad to be of help.
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