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    Trouble Vista WPA-PSK regedit

    Discussion in 'Networking and Wireless' started by _GZ_, Feb 13, 2009.

  1. _GZ_

    _GZ_ Notebook Consultant

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    Hello,

    I have trouble connecting with WPA-PSK under Vista and I guess I am not the only one?

    I found this regedit fix:
    http://support.microsoft.com/kb/928233/

    Is this the only way to fix this problem? Has anyone here tried it?

    Where do I find the GUID of the wireless card? I have a bunch of different GUID in regedit and do not know which one to change.
     
    _GZ_, Feb 13, 2009
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    _GZ_ Notebook Consultant

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    I include a picture to illustrate my worries finding the correct GUID to change. There are 7 different GUIDs under interfaces in regedit and I don't know which one(s) correspond to the wireless card.

    How do I find the correct GUID?
     

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    _GZ_, Feb 14, 2009
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    I checked the DHCP table on the router to see which GUID in regedit had the same IP assigned. I did that on two seperate routers to make sure and only one GUID in regedit matched.
     
    _GZ_, Feb 17, 2009
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    You could have also run an ipconfig to see which one matched.

    Or you could have disabled all your interfaces, deleted the guids, then rebooted and the only one with the ip address would have been the correct one (or disabled all devices except the wireless, then there would have only been one)

    Your's was a good solution though
     
    gerryf19, Feb 17, 2009
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