I’ve had Windows 7 beta installed on my Lenovo S10 for a few weeks now and I’ve been constantly plagued by a problem with my wireless connectivity. I set up my wifi connection to my router, and I selected the checkbox to automatically connect to the network whenever it is in range. I could connect and disconnect from my wireless network all day long. The problem would occur when I rebooted or shutdown. When the machine would come back up, I’d have to manually connect to my wireless network again! All the settings were there except for that checkbox to automatically connect. Every reboot would reset that checkbox to be blank. Which meant that every reboot would force me to manually connect again!
Finally, I think I found the solution. I searched high and low in the registry and couldn’t find an appropriate registry setting to change that would force this automatic connection. That meant that Windows must be storing the connection profile in a different place. After using some file access monitoring tools, I narrowed it down to an xml file. If you’re having a similar problem, either in Windows 7 or Vista, try the following steps:
