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"Use Windows to configure ..." is checked automatically

Author
8 Oct 2007 7:50 AM
Naresh
Hi,
Am working on Wifi application development on XP-SP2. My application will
enable/disable the WZC based on user selection. From sometime back, my
IBM-R51 development laptop is behaving strangly. I found that "Use Windows to
configure my wireless network settings" is always checked. I tried to modify
the registry
settings(HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\WZCSVC\Parameters\Interfaces\{NetcfgInstanceId}\ControlFlags),
but again, it will be checked in GUI as well as registry settings.

Only workaround is to stop the WZC service.

Any help will be greatly appreciated,
Naresh

Author
9 Oct 2007 7:00 AM
Naresh
When I tried to uncheck it from GUI, I am getting error message saying
"Atleast one of your changes was not applied successfully to the wireless
configuration."

Naresh

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"Naresh" wrote:

> Hi,
>  Am working on Wifi application development on XP-SP2. My application will
> enable/disable the WZC based on user selection. From sometime back, my
> IBM-R51 development laptop is behaving strangly. I found that "Use Windows to
> configure my wireless network settings" is always checked. I tried to modify
> the registry
> settings(HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\WZCSVC\Parameters\Interfaces\{NetcfgInstanceId}\ControlFlags),
> but again, it will be checked in GUI as well as registry settings.
>
> Only workaround is to stop the WZC service.
>
> Any help will be greatly appreciated,
> Naresh
Author
11 Oct 2007 1:28 AM
Pavel A.
Hi,
Use the new "native wi-fi" API described on MSDN site.
Don't tamper with the WZC servise, this is WRONG way.

For more details please visit misrosoft.public.win32.programmer.networks or programmer.kernel,
or MSDN SDK forums.

Regards,
--PA

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"Naresh" <Nar***@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:7E8E221E-B77C-491B-8B98-B2B15B64EFF7@microsoft.com...
> When I tried to uncheck it from GUI, I am getting error message saying
> "Atleast one of your changes was not applied successfully to the wireless
> configuration."
>
> Naresh
>
> "Naresh" wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>  Am working on Wifi application development on XP-SP2. My application will
>> enable/disable the WZC based on user selection. From sometime back, my
>> IBM-R51 development laptop is behaving strangly. I found that "Use Windows to
>> configure my wireless network settings" is always checked. I tried to modify
>> the registry
>> settings(HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\WZCSVC\Parameters\Interfaces\{NetcfgInstanceId}\ControlFlags),
>> but again, it will be checked in GUI as well as registry settings.
>>
>> Only workaround is to stop the WZC service.
>>
>> Any help will be greatly appreciated,
>> Naresh
Author
11 Oct 2007 4:40 AM
Naresh
Thanks Pavel,
Since I was not able to uncheck it from GUI, I tried to modify the registry
& still it didn't work. Later I found on
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/918450, that this issue was caused by group
policy & hence once I removed my computer from domain controller & added to
WORKGROUP, I was able to uncheck it from GUI.

Thanks for your kind help,
Naresh

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"Pavel A." wrote:

> Hi,
> Use the new "native wi-fi" API described on MSDN site.
> Don't tamper with the WZC servise, this is WRONG way.
>
> For more details please visit misrosoft.public.win32.programmer.networks or programmer.kernel,
> or MSDN SDK forums.
>
> Regards,
> --PA
>
> "Naresh" <Nar***@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:7E8E221E-B77C-491B-8B98-B2B15B64EFF7@microsoft.com...
> > When I tried to uncheck it from GUI, I am getting error message saying
> > "Atleast one of your changes was not applied successfully to the wireless
> > configuration."
> >
> > Naresh
> >
> > "Naresh" wrote:
> >
> >> Hi,
> >>  Am working on Wifi application development on XP-SP2. My application will
> >> enable/disable the WZC based on user selection. From sometime back, my
> >> IBM-R51 development laptop is behaving strangly. I found that "Use Windows to
> >> configure my wireless network settings" is always checked. I tried to modify
> >> the registry
> >> settings(HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\WZCSVC\Parameters\Interfaces\{NetcfgInstanceId}\ControlFlags),
> >> but again, it will be checked in GUI as well as registry settings.
> >>
> >> Only workaround is to stop the WZC service.
> >>
> >> Any help will be greatly appreciated,
> >> Naresh
>
>
>