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Name: auto7890
Date: April 30, 2008 at 22:28:17 Pacific
OS: xp
CPU/Ram: 256
Product: windows
Comment:

Please help.
After I tried my wireless connection on my laptop, I now can not disable it.
After I uninstall all 3 wireless drivers and have the setting in the wireless checked to off, when I re-boot it all comes back again.

Does anyone know how to disbale all these ?

the wireless switch turns itself back on again after re-boot.



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Name: lordmanhamer
Date: May 1, 2008 at 04:49:42 Pacific
Reply:

laptop some times have a way of switching the power off to the wirless car look at the power settings in windows or you could look in the bios. in the power settings you might find that there is diffrent settings for when its running off battery. there is also some times a hot key to kill it you press the fn key along with another that has a symbol of an arial.

also try going into control panel network conections then click on the wirless device and dissable. if that didnt work then go into contol pannel network conections highlight the conection right click properties, then properies then configure and change the drop down box to donto use this device disabled. then apply or ok.

all text needs typos. There there for the reader to find,to distract them from the total lack of content.
google it! wasnt the answer to the question i asked so dont be dense and give me that repl


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Response Number 2
Name: Curt R
Date: May 1, 2008 at 06:24:56 Pacific
Reply:

Check the laptop itself. Most newer laptops come with an external on/off switch for the wireless adapter.

If yours doesn't have one, just open "My Network Places" properties sheet, right click on the wireless adapter and select "Disable" from the pull down menu.

You could also disable it in Device Manager


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Response Number 3
Name: Jeruvy
Date: May 7, 2008 at 09:55:56 Pacific
Reply:

Not enough info.

What is your system? Does it include a wireless adapter or did you buy one and install it? Either way, what model is your wireless adapter.

You stated you have 3 drivers installed, why? What exactly are you uninstalling? What is it called? Where did you try to uninstall it from? How did you install this originally?

J.
j e r u v y a t y a h o o d o t c o m


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