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#150798 3-Aug-2014 20:10
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Out of the blue my laptop has stopped auto connecting to my home wifi on start up. I am running windows 8.1 and everything is up to date. When the laptop is started you can see all the networks you can connect to and if I select mine the auto connect box is already ticked.
When I do connect to it I have to type in the security key every time I start the laptop.

After its connected below is what I am seeing in regards to the connection.

It does connect and everything works ok. If I click on the back arrow next to networks though it disconnects me from my wireless connections.

Anybody got any ideas on this at all.




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  #1102886 5-Aug-2014 20:47
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Based om my previous post on the fact it seemed that windows was not creating a profile for my wireless network I manged to find the following which allowed me to create a profile and import it in. So far so good and 5 restarts to check it has connected auto every time.

There is probably a lot easier way to do it but it worked for me.

http://www.thewindowsclub.com/wifi-profile-manager-windows-8

this is my sample xml file for the wireless profile

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<WLANProfile xmlns="http://www.microsoft.com/networking/WLAN/profile/v1">
    <name>Your ssid you are connecting to</name>
    <SSIDConfig>
        <SSID>
            <hex>4D65646961</hex>
            <name>Your ssid you are connecting to</name>
        </SSID>
    </SSIDConfig>
    <connectionType>ESS</connectionType>
    <connectionMode>auto</connectionMode>
    <MSM>
        <security>
            <authEncryption>
                <authentication>WPA2PSK</authentication>
                <encryption>AES</encryption>
                <useOneX>false</useOneX>
            </authEncryption>
            <sharedKey>
                <keyType>passPhrase</keyType>
                <protected>false</protected>
                <keyMaterial>your pass key</keyMaterial>
            </sharedKey>
        </security>
    </MSM>
</WLANProfile>




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