Windows 7 beta installed on Lenovo S10 had a problem on wireless
connectivity may it cause of wrong setting at the connection mode.
Before go to make a changes, better you know about the symptom first.
Those who experience in wireless connection problem on Lenovo S10 with
Windows 7 beta installed said that they’ve been constantly plagued by
this problem although they do the right set up on wifi connection to
router and then while selected the checkbox to automatically connect
to the network whenever it is in range, it’s work.
But when the computer switch back on after reboot or shutdown, the
checkmark to automatically connect in the wireless setup box is gone.
You need to check it back to make a connection. And it occurs each
time the computer rebooting.
Avoid the Windows 7 beta installed on Lenovo S10 resetting back
wireless connectivity to the manual setup, here’s the solution you can
do:
1. Go to the Start menu => Control Panel => Administrative Tools. Open
the Services management console by double click on the Services icon.
2. Scroll down to find WLAN AutoConfig and right click on it. Now
select Stop from the menu. And the service will run, wait till it
stopped.
3. Open Windows Explorer and go to
C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Wlansvc\Profiles\Interfaces. Find out a
directory or directories in there with long names like
{FBDADD33-7552-4D1E-B3B0-71C6128AFE14}. In case you’ll find multiple
directories, choose one which has the matches your wireless name by
double click on it.
5. Once you find your xml file, open it in Notepad. There will be one
setting in that file that reads
“auto”, without the quotation marks. Save the file. Don’t change the
name or the location.
6. Make sure the machine allowed you’re change permissions on the file
to deny SYSTEM and Administrators from being able to write to the
file. Follow these steps to take a full ownership of the file.
- Right click on the file you just saved and select Properties.
- Click on the Security tab.
- Click the Advanced button.
- Click on the Owner tab and click on the Edit button.
- Select your user account in the list and select Apply.
7. Go back to the Permissions tab. Click on the Edit button. Remove
the checkmark from the “Include inheritable permissions from this
object’s parent”. A dialog window will pop up. In Vista, click on the
Copy button. In Windows 7, click on the Add button.
8. Highlight the system account in the list and click on the Edit
button. Check the box to deny full control. All checkmarks underneath
Full Control will move from Allow to deny. Now, we can’t deny all
permissions because the system needs to be able to read the contents
of this file, so we need to move some of the checkmarks back over to
the Allow column.
Check the box to allow the following permissions: Traverse folder /
Execute file, List folder / read data, Read attributes, Read extended
attributes, and Read permissions. Pretty much any permission that says
“Read” is good to go. Just deny all the other settings that would
allow SYSTEM to write or modify the file.
9. Do the same things in step before for the Administrators account.
After you’ve changed the permissions for those two accounts, you can
apply and OK your way out of all those windows.
10. Go back to the Services management console and start up the WLAN
AutoConfig service again. Right click on the service and select Start
from the menu.
Now, your wireless connection on on Lenovo S10 with Windows 7 beta
installed should stop reset to manual setup and connect automatically
after the machine reboot. This ways work well in wireless connection
that listed as Access Point. Perhaps it’s will success for Adhoc
networks or other connection type.
