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WLAN AutoConfig won't start in Vista! - No wireless connections found! |
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Written by computerguy
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Monday, 25 February 2008 00:00 |
Been dealing with this issue on a customer's new Vista Home Premium laptop today... All of a sudden it stopped finding wireless connections.
Trying to start the WLAN auto config always got me an error, so I started checking the "dependancy" services for WLAN Auto Config. And the dependancies of those dependancies...
Bottom line, I found a service that had a corrupt .dll associated.
The service was named: KeyISO
Every time I'd try to view the KeyISO properties, it would give me a "not functioning Error 2". Not able to find anything about it in MS KB, I started some tried and true possibilities, not knowing if any of them would work, but giving them a try anyway.
Long story short, I ended up running the old SFC /SCANNOW from a command prompt elevated as Administrator.
Click the blue pearl, then click the search box.
Type 'CMD', then hold down Ctrl-Shift and press the Enter key. This should open a command prompt elevated to Administrative level. (click continue at the prompt).
Type 'sfc /scannow' (obviously without the quotes, and press enter. Let it do it's thing and scan your system. When it's done, restart the computer.
That's all it took for me, and my wireless started showing up again. There are a couple other "fixes" for this particular issue, but they simply didn't work for me. So I'm documenting my fix. Hope it works for you!
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Last Updated on Sunday, 28 June 2009 22:35 |