Error disableing wireless network adapter

[Bill]

I have a six week old Dell Inspiron 9300 runing XP Pro SP2. It has both
an internal 100 mbs network card and an internal 802.11 a/b/g wireless
adapter. Most of the time I use the wireless adapter and have the wired
adapter disabled. Sometimes I disable the wireless adapter and enable
the wired adapter when I have to copy very large files. The last time I
did this was several weeks ago.

Now, when I right click the wireless adapter and choose Disable I get
an error message, "It is not possible to disable the connection at this
time. This connection may be using one or more protocols that do not
support Plug-and-Play, or it may have been initiated by another user or
the system account."

I have no idea what has changed to cause this. I can disable the
wireless adapter in Device Manager but that is a nuisance. How can I
fix this problem so I can once again disable the wireless adapter?

Thanks,

 

[Phillips]

Might be some updating software (ex. QTime, Acrobat etc) or some service
(VPN?) that needs the connection alive. You can try to find the culprit or,
easier, delete reboot and see if you get any error regarding the connection;
then, redo the connection.
If the issue persist, try disabling one service at a time (Run ->
services.msc) and see if you can disable....

Michael

 

[Bill]

Thanks Michael. I'll try your suggestions.