Wireless available message won't shut up

[bvh]

I've got an HP laptop with an 802.11G card built in. When I'm near an
802.11 spot I get a bubble pointing to the task tray telling me there
are available networks. If I'm nowhere near one, I get a bubble
telling me there are no networks.

This would be fine if it did it once. But I click the close X on the
bubble and several seconds later it comes back! It never leaves!
Even If I turn off the 802.11 card.

Even more annoying is when I hook into my wireless web. My neighbors
just got one too and so it dutifully informs me every few seconds that
its available even though I'm already online.

I've played with the settings to no avail. I did notice the setting
that lets me turn off the nofication icon in the tray, but that didn't
do anything.

Is there any way to stop this madness short of switching to Linux?

 

[Feng Mao]

Hi bvh,

Thank you for posting!

I understand you concern on the annoied bubble on the notification area. As
I know, you have tried to disable it in some settings. I would like to
confirm that you have tried the below steps with no avail.

1. Right click Start button
2. Choose Properties menu from the cotext menu
3. In Taskbat tab, choose Customize button
4. You may find the item about the wireless connection.
5. Click its Behavior on the right.
6. Choose Always hide from the drop-down box.
7. Click OK button and OK button again to apply the modification

I hope it helps.

Have a nice day!

Thanks & Regards,

Feng Mao [MSFT], MCSE
Microsoft Online Partner Support

Get Secure! - www.microsoft.com/security

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| From: bvh <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.hardware
| Subject: Wireless available message won't shut up
| Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2004 00:49:14 -0500
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| I've got an HP laptop with an 802.11G card built in. When I'm near an
| 802.11 spot I get a bubble pointing to the task tray telling me there
| are available networks. If I'm nowhere near one, I get a bubble
| telling me there are no networks.
|
| This would be fine if it did it once. But I click the close X on the
| bubble and several seconds later it comes back! It never leaves!
| Even If I turn off the 802.11 card.
|
| Even more annoying is when I hook into my wireless web. My neighbors
| just got one too and so it dutifully informs me every few seconds that
| its available even though I'm already online.
|
| I've played with the settings to no avail. I did notice the setting
| that lets me turn off the nofication icon in the tray, but that didn't
| do anything.
|
| Is there any way to stop this madness short of switching to Linux?
|
|

 

[bvh]

No, it didn't. I change the settings but a few minutes later they
revert to what they were before. I've repeated the process several
times.

Hi bvh,

Thank you for posting!

I understand you concern on the annoied bubble on the notification area. As
I know, you have tried to disable it in some settings. I would like to
confirm that you have tried the below steps with no avail.

1. Right click Start button
2. Choose Properties menu from the cotext menu
3. In Taskbat tab, choose Customize button
4. You may find the item about the wireless connection.
5. Click its Behavior on the right.
6. Choose Always hide from the drop-down box.
7. Click OK button and OK button again to apply the modification

I hope it helps.

Have a nice day!

Thanks & Regards,

Feng Mao [MSFT], MCSE
Microsoft Online Partner Support

Get Secure! - www.microsoft.com/security

=====================================================
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that others may learn and benefit from your issue.
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| From: bvh <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.hardware
| Subject: Wireless available message won't shut up
| Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2004 00:49:14 -0500
| Organization: Posted via Supernews, http://www.supernews.com
| Message-ID: <[email protected]>
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|
| I've got an HP laptop with an 802.11G card built in. When I'm near an
| 802.11 spot I get a bubble pointing to the task tray telling me there
| are available networks. If I'm nowhere near one, I get a bubble
| telling me there are no networks.
|
| This would be fine if it did it once. But I click the close X on the
| bubble and several seconds later it comes back! It never leaves!
| Even If I turn off the 802.11 card.
|
| Even more annoying is when I hook into my wireless web. My neighbors
| just got one too and so it dutifully informs me every few seconds that
| its available even though I'm already online.
|
| I've played with the settings to no avail. I did notice the setting
| that lets me turn off the nofication icon in the tray, but that didn't
| do anything.
|
| Is there any way to stop this madness short of switching to Linux?
|
|

 

[Nathan McNulty]

There is a way to completely disable this, but it would affect your
current connection. What wireless card are you using? If you use the
tool that came with the card instead of the one built into Windows, you
may be able to avoid this problem.

Your other option, which I would highly recommend, would be to change
the channel that your router runs on. The default is usually 6, but I
would change it to something like 8 and use at least WEP encryption.
This will keep your neighbor from using your internet and should prevent
finding multiple networks as it should only search on channel 8 (you may
need to manually set this).

----
Nathan McNulty

No, it didn't. I change the settings but a few minutes later they
revert to what they were before. I've repeated the process several
times.

Hi bvh,

Thank you for posting!

I understand you concern on the annoied bubble on the notification area. As
I know, you have tried to disable it in some settings. I would like to
confirm that you have tried the below steps with no avail.

1. Right click Start button
2. Choose Properties menu from the cotext menu
3. In Taskbat tab, choose Customize button
4. You may find the item about the wireless connection.
5. Click its Behavior on the right.
6. Choose Always hide from the drop-down box.
7. Click OK button and OK button again to apply the modification

I hope it helps.

Have a nice day!

Thanks & Regards,

Feng Mao [MSFT], MCSE
Microsoft Online Partner Support

Get Secure! - www.microsoft.com/security

=====================================================
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that others may learn and benefit from your issue.
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| From: bvh <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.hardware
| Subject: Wireless available message won't shut up
| Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2004 00:49:14 -0500
| Organization: Posted via Supernews, http://www.supernews.com
| Message-ID: <[email protected]>
| X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 2.0/32.652 trialware
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|
| I've got an HP laptop with an 802.11G card built in. When I'm near an
| 802.11 spot I get a bubble pointing to the task tray telling me there
| are available networks. If I'm nowhere near one, I get a bubble
| telling me there are no networks.
|
| This would be fine if it did it once. But I click the close X on the
| bubble and several seconds later it comes back! It never leaves!
| Even If I turn off the 802.11 card.
|
| Even more annoying is when I hook into my wireless web. My neighbors
| just got one too and so it dutifully informs me every few seconds that
| its available even though I'm already online.
|
| I've played with the settings to no avail. I did notice the setting
| that lets me turn off the nofication icon in the tray, but that didn't
| do anything.
|
| Is there any way to stop this madness short of switching to Linux?
|
|

 

[bvh]

Yeah, its already encrypted. No way will those gomers get in.

As for what card, it came with the laptop - Broadcom 54g. I'm not
aware of any additional software that shipped with the laptop vs.
other cards I bought separately which do come with their own CD.

It seems like changing the channel wouldn't do much. Doesn't windows
scan all the channels?

There is a way to completely disable this, but it would affect your
current connection. What wireless card are you using? If you use the
tool that came with the card instead of the one built into Windows, you
may be able to avoid this problem.

Your other option, which I would highly recommend, would be to change
the channel that your router runs on. The default is usually 6, but I
would change it to something like 8 and use at least WEP encryption.
This will keep your neighbor from using your internet and should prevent
finding multiple networks as it should only search on channel 8 (you may
need to manually set this).

----
Nathan McNulty

No, it didn't. I change the settings but a few minutes later they
revert to what they were before. I've repeated the process several
times.

Hi bvh,

Thank you for posting!

I understand you concern on the annoied bubble on the notification area. As
I know, you have tried to disable it in some settings. I would like to
confirm that you have tried the below steps with no avail.

1. Right click Start button
2. Choose Properties menu from the cotext menu
3. In Taskbat tab, choose Customize button
4. You may find the item about the wireless connection.
5. Click its Behavior on the right.
6. Choose Always hide from the drop-down box.
7. Click OK button and OK button again to apply the modification

I hope it helps.

Have a nice day!

Thanks & Regards,

Feng Mao [MSFT], MCSE
Microsoft Online Partner Support

Get Secure! - www.microsoft.com/security

=====================================================
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that others may learn and benefit from your issue.
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| From: bvh <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.hardware
| Subject: Wireless available message won't shut up
| Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2004 00:49:14 -0500
| Organization: Posted via Supernews, http://www.supernews.com
| Message-ID: <[email protected]>
| X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 2.0/32.652 trialware
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| I've got an HP laptop with an 802.11G card built in. When I'm near an
| 802.11 spot I get a bubble pointing to the task tray telling me there
| are available networks. If I'm nowhere near one, I get a bubble
| telling me there are no networks.
|
| This would be fine if it did it once. But I click the close X on the
| bubble and several seconds later it comes back! It never leaves!
| Even If I turn off the 802.11 card.
|
| Even more annoying is when I hook into my wireless web. My neighbors
| just got one too and so it dutifully informs me every few seconds that
| its available even though I'm already online.
|
| I've played with the settings to no avail. I did notice the setting
| that lets me turn off the nofication icon in the tray, but that didn't
| do anything.
|
| Is there any way to stop this madness short of switching to Linux?
|
|

 

[Nathan McNulty]

The only software available for that chip is called "SecureEZSetup" and
you can't download it as it is only for software engineers who use the
Broadcom chip in their product.

As for Windows scanning all channels, I believe you are correct. I am
not sure how to work around your problem, but I do know how to turn off
the baloon. Only problem is that the two ways to turn the baloon off
will either affect all baloon popups or completely disallow Windows to
configure your wireless card. This would be fine if you had a
configuration utility for your card other than the one included with
Windows, but I believe Windows is just not capable of doing this.

----
Nathan McNulty

Yeah, its already encrypted. No way will those gomers get in.

As for what card, it came with the laptop - Broadcom 54g. I'm not
aware of any additional software that shipped with the laptop vs.
other cards I bought separately which do come with their own CD.

It seems like changing the channel wouldn't do much. Doesn't windows
scan all the channels?

There is a way to completely disable this, but it would affect your
current connection. What wireless card are you using? If you use the
tool that came with the card instead of the one built into Windows, you
may be able to avoid this problem.

Your other option, which I would highly recommend, would be to change
the channel that your router runs on. The default is usually 6, but I
would change it to something like 8 and use at least WEP encryption.
This will keep your neighbor from using your internet and should prevent
finding multiple networks as it should only search on channel 8 (you may
need to manually set this).

----
Nathan McNulty

No, it didn't. I change the settings but a few minutes later they
revert to what they were before. I've repeated the process several
times.

Hi bvh,

Thank you for posting!

I understand you concern on the annoied bubble on the notification area. As
I know, you have tried to disable it in some settings. I would like to
confirm that you have tried the below steps with no avail.

1. Right click Start button
2. Choose Properties menu from the cotext menu
3. In Taskbat tab, choose Customize button
4. You may find the item about the wireless connection.
5. Click its Behavior on the right.
6. Choose Always hide from the drop-down box.
7. Click OK button and OK button again to apply the modification

I hope it helps.

Have a nice day!

Thanks & Regards,

Feng Mao [MSFT], MCSE
Microsoft Online Partner Support

Get Secure! - www.microsoft.com/security

=====================================================
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--------------------
| From: bvh <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.hardware
| Subject: Wireless available message won't shut up
| Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2004 00:49:14 -0500
| Organization: Posted via Supernews, http://www.supernews.com
| Message-ID: <[email protected]>
| X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 2.0/32.652 trialware
| MIME-Version: 1.0
| Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
| Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
| X-Complaints-To: (e-mail address removed)
| Lines: 19
| Path:
cpmsftngxa10.phx.gbl!TK2MSFTNGXA02.phx.gbl!cpmsftngxa06.phx.gbl!TK2MSFTNGP08
phx.gbl!newsfeed00.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!border2.nntp.dca.giganews.co
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n-xit-09!sn-xit-08!sn-post-02!sn-post-01!supernews.com!news.supernews.com!no
t-for-mail
| Xref: cpmsftngxa10.phx.gbl microsoft.public.windowsxp.hardware:223274
| X-Tomcat-NG: microsoft.public.windowsxp.hardware
|
| I've got an HP laptop with an 802.11G card built in. When I'm near an
| 802.11 spot I get a bubble pointing to the task tray telling me there
| are available networks. If I'm nowhere near one, I get a bubble
| telling me there are no networks.
|
| This would be fine if it did it once. But I click the close X on the
| bubble and several seconds later it comes back! It never leaves!
| Even If I turn off the 802.11 card.
|
| Even more annoying is when I hook into my wireless web. My neighbors
| just got one too and so it dutifully informs me every few seconds that
| its available even though I'm already online.
|
| I've played with the settings to no avail. I did notice the setting
| that lets me turn off the nofication icon in the tray, but that didn't
| do anything.
|
| Is there any way to stop this madness short of switching to Linux?
|
|