From the course: Wireless Networking: Advanced Troubleshooting
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Repairing the WLAN autoconfig service
From the course: Wireless Networking: Advanced Troubleshooting
Repairing the WLAN autoconfig service
- [Instructor] There's a very important service that should dynamically select which wireless network that the computer will automatically connect to, and it's called the WLAN Auto Config Service. And sometimes it gets stuck. Sometimes it has some other problems. So let's take a look at that service. I'm going to go to my search box and type in services and open up the services system option. Now I'm going to scroll down to WLAN, and there's my WLAN auto config, and here you can see it's going to provide wireless services. So I'm going to double click on that and make sure it's set to automatic. Sometimes when you install a new wireless card, it does not automatically set this to automatic, so make sure that that is set to there. And also make sure that it's running. If you go to log on, it would be only because the service does not start, and what you can do is you can change this to this account and you can put in the administrator account name that you used to create the very first…