I keep losing my wireless connection windows xp

If you choose to disable Wireless Zero Configuration, you need to install some other program to handle the wireless network adapter.

If you have a CD with drivers and applications for your wireless network card, you need to install it. Everything should then work properly. One idea is to only stop, not disable the Wireless Zero Configuration service, then repeat that each time you start your computer, after it finds the wireless network and connects to it. But who wants to do so many things each time he turns the computer on? The laptop can see the wireless network it shows as available and connected.

Try removing any wireless profiles that were created and connecting again. Are you sure the wireless radio is turned on?

If there is no security on the router and the SSID is broadcast, the wireless should find it and link to it automatically. Do you have a friend with another laptop you can try connecting to your home net?

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Please note: Do not post advertisements, offensive material, profanity, or personal attacks. Please remember to be considerate of other members. All submitted content is subject to our Terms Of Use. Hi there, I've been poking around the site and I've seen related posts about this, but no real solutions yet, figured I'd post my query about this and see if someone can help I have a lab of 17 Dell Precisions, and 1 Dell Poweredge The workstations are running WinXP Pro all patched and with the latest drivers.

The server is running Server , patched and good. The network runs my own private Active Directory domain. These labs do not have the problem. The problem began in February of It will, however, still see the server if the user has a drive mapped. Repairing the connection does not work. Re-inserting the ethernet plug does not work. Restarting the machine not power cycling does not work. Only Power Cycling the machine works to restore the connection. Curiously, when the server loses connection, restarting no power cycle fixes the problem.

I do not have to powercycle the server, only the workstations. When the server loses its connection, its connection to the AD Domain also fails. The restart fixes this too. As mentioned above, however, machines attached to the server via a mapped network drive can still access the server.

When the network connection goes out, there is no indication that the network has lost connectivity. The network icon indicator says the ethernet is connected at 1Gbps.

The wiring is all brand new and tested. The NICS are all brand new. All the machines exhibit this problem. The lab worked fine from Sept to feb No software has been added or deleted from the machines since Sept , save for Microsoft Patches through update. The workstations exhibit this problem regardless of whether they are logged into the AD Domain or logged in as a local administrator. There is antivirus software, MCaffee 8.

Microsoft firewall is running. I have another PC lab running all the same software on similar spec machines in a different location connected to the same IT infrastructure that does NOT exhibit ANY of these problems. Hibernation mode is deactivated. Power save mode on the NIC is disabled. I appreciate any help.