My little wireless icon in the system tray says "acquiring network address" and stays taht way for a very long time, but everything seems to be fine. I have just gong through and tried to weed through the services that I don't need, so I am guessing it's probably something to do with that, but I am not sure which one. if I do a ipconfig /release & /renew it only takes me a couple seconds and it comes up fine. In fact: it's even telling me that I HAVE an IP address while it's trying to acquire it.
Any ideas?

Alright. I MAY have found it, although I don't understand why so any clarification would be awesome.
i turned the Network Location Awareness service back on and it seems to work fine now.

Personal computers running Windows often have numerous network connections, such as multiple network interface cards (NIC) connected to different networks, or a physical network connection and a dial-up connection. Windows Sockets has been capable of enumerating available network interfaces for some time, but certain critical information about network connections—such as the logical network to which a Windows computer is attached, or whether multiple interfaces are connected to the same network—was previously unavailable.

The Network Location Awareness service provider, commonly referred to as NLA, enables Windows Sockets 2 applications to identify the logical network to which a Windows computer is attached. NLA enables Windows Sockets applications to identify to which physical network interface a given application has saved specific information. NLA is implemented as a generic Windows Sockets 2 Name Resolution service provider.

Nice to see "copy" and "paste" are working for you, mbrook. Where is that from?

Sometimes it's so much easier to just do that then say it over and over again. That is from Microsoft web site. Besides I didn't know really how to put that into my own words besides saying "hey you need that service" :).

Very true. And you certainly answered the questions :)

Hey, you answered the question. That is much better than just sending them to another website. Who cares where the information comes from?

"Who cares where the information comes from?"

Someone who wants to read more on the subject?

Someone who wants to verify the trustworthiness of the source?

The original author of the information who wants to be credited for his work?

I have the same issue on my laptop. That answer didn't really mean much to me. Is there something I need to do to correct this? Waht cause it? I ame after the latest auto-update, never seen it before. Thanks!

Tom

Doh! In the time it took to write that, then regiter so I could pot it, the litle ping-pong ball stopped, and it simple says "connected." So in English, what happened? Thx!

"i turned the Network Location Awareness service back on and it seems to work fine now."

I am having the same problem. How do I turn the NLA service on though?