Recently I have faced a strange problem with windows vista laptop that vista wireless adapter did not find any wireless networks available in the area. I’m sure networks are available, because I connected one more laptop in same place. Here are the steps I tried to solve this issue.
You can try below steps whenever you face same problem.
1) Check whether any third party software (mostly the same laptop supplier) is available to detect and connect wireless network. If it’s set to take care of wireless networks, then windows wireless network manager will not detect any networks. So, check the third party software or make the windows wireless manager as default wireless connectivity manager. Mine is Acer laptop, so I disabled some ‘Acer econnect’ software, and made windows wireless manager as default. But still the problem not solved.
2) When diagnose the issue, it said Windows Wireless Service not started. I couldn’t start the service; it was giving some more errors.
Below Two Steps fixed the issue.
3) Make sure the loged is user got appropriate permission in registry where services are listed.
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE -> SYSTEM -> CurrentControlSet -> Services
If not, give full permission by right click, and permissions.
4) Reset Windows socket
Open command prompt as administrator and try below command
Netsh winsock reset
That’s it, after the restart windows vista wireless adapter started finding available wireless network.
