The late XV105
5th May 2009, 20:04
Home PC running XP SP3 Media Center Edition 2005
Work Laptop running XP Pro SP3
Home Laptop running XP Home SP3
All are set with Wireless Zero Configuration enabled (so XP takes care of managing WiFi connections) and all exhibit the same problem since I switched the home network to WPA-PSK from WEP 64 bit yesterday (having retired an old laptop that only supported the latter level of encryption)
Wireless router is a Home Hub v1 running 6.2.6.E firmware
Double click WiFi icon in System Tray
Observe connected status
Click "View Available Networks" button
Click "Change the order of preferred networks" button
Observe that the wireless dialogue box disappears entirely and Explorer hangs; nothing what so ever is "clickable" to do anything
Press CTRL-ALT-DEL and open Task Manager
Observe nothing has state "Not Responding"
Observe CPU is 0% to 1% so nothing is running away with itself
Kill the Explorer process via the Processes tab
Restart the Explorer process via "New Task" Explorer in the Applications tab
Observe that everything comes back to life and the wireless connection still exists
Repeat initial steps
Observe that this time the preferred networks window DOES display
Regular as clockwork
Every time
Que?!?!?
Work Laptop running XP Pro SP3
Home Laptop running XP Home SP3
All are set with Wireless Zero Configuration enabled (so XP takes care of managing WiFi connections) and all exhibit the same problem since I switched the home network to WPA-PSK from WEP 64 bit yesterday (having retired an old laptop that only supported the latter level of encryption)
Wireless router is a Home Hub v1 running 6.2.6.E firmware
Double click WiFi icon in System Tray
Observe connected status
Click "View Available Networks" button
Click "Change the order of preferred networks" button
Observe that the wireless dialogue box disappears entirely and Explorer hangs; nothing what so ever is "clickable" to do anything
Press CTRL-ALT-DEL and open Task Manager
Observe nothing has state "Not Responding"
Observe CPU is 0% to 1% so nothing is running away with itself
Kill the Explorer process via the Processes tab
Restart the Explorer process via "New Task" Explorer in the Applications tab
Observe that everything comes back to life and the wireless connection still exists
Repeat initial steps
Observe that this time the preferred networks window DOES display
Regular as clockwork
Every time
Que?!?!?