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Auto Connect to Wifi - Won't work! Any Ideas Please?
I bought my mum her first PC with Win 7 and a broadband connection which we have set up as WIFI. The broadband works fine, when we manually connect it. But the problem is when I have tried to set this to 'connect automatically on start up' (bottom right hand corner icon / into wifi and properties / clicked on the connections tab and ticked the box that says 'connect automatically on start up'. But everytime I re-start the computer, the wifi does not automatically connect. I have tried ticking the other 2 boxes as well under 'connect automatically..etc- but nothing seems to work. I have downloaded the latest software adaptor, installed IE9 over the top and the settings all say 'automatically connect' - but the pc just is not doing it - on start up.
I don't know what else to do - I am sure it's a setting somewhere, but spent 3 hrs last night and couldn't find it. I just want to make it easy for my mum to get onto the net as she's never used a pc before! so all she has to do is to click on the E/ ie button and straight into google.
Any thoughts would be very welcome, thank you very much.