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PC refuses to automatically connect to wireless network
I travel frequently with my Windows 7 Ultimate laptop. I have a Windows Mobile 6.5 phone and use WMWifiRouter to tether my laptop to the phone. (WMWifiRouter actually creates a mobile Internet hotspot.) This provides my laptop with wireless Internet access just about anywhere.
WMWifiRouer uses WEP/Open encryption. I use a complex encyption key.
Everytime I launch WMWifiRouter and use my laptop, I have to *manually* connect my Win7 laptop to the wireless network and also have to *type* in the security key. There is no option to "Save password" or to have the laptop automatically connect to the wireless network.
The wireless network is configured within Win7 as a "Public network"; I've changed it to "Work network" and "Home network", however, with the same results.
I'm at a loss as to why I can't configure Win7 to automatically connect to this wireless network. I even used the Manage Wireless Networks applet to manually add the wireless network (including entering the security key), configuring it to automatically connect to the network, but Win7 still refuses to connect automatically to this network and I still have to type in the security key.
What am I missing? Thanks.