From: "Antti Kurenniemi" 

I cleared it all out. At least I think I did. Gotta get that other system
in soon so I can compare these. Damn annoying that so many uninstallers
leave all sorts of crap around.


Antti Kurenniemi

"Geo"  wrote in message
news:44d3deaa$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> Just a thought but usually virtual PC type stuff installs services that
> allow it to do networking. Might still be one that looks like a network
> service but is actually from vmware or vpc.
>
> Geo.
>
> "Antti Kurenniemi" 
wrote in message
> news:44d333f4$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>> I've got WLAN set at my office, and it's started acting funny: I can use
> it
>> for like a couple of hours (one hour yesterday, about three today)
> normally,
>> and then all of a sudden my computer (XP Pro) drops the wireless
> connection.
>> Then it re-connects automatically, stays on for 10-30 seconds and drops
> off
>> again. Then reconnect, and so on and so on. It never gets to a normal
> state
>> again before I reboot the system, after which it seems to work normally.
>>
>> I had MS Virtual PC installed for a while, and got some bluescreens with
>> that. I think it may have been related to the network drivers. I
> uninstalled
>> it, and manually cleared out everything I could find related to the VPC
>> setup. Then I tried VMWare Workstation for a while, and had this problem
>> (on-off-on-off), so I uninstalled VMWare as I thought that was the cause,
>> but it's still happening.
>>
>> In any case, I think it's this computer and not the access point because
>> a
>> reboot cures it. I've done spyware sweeps and full virus scan, disk check
>> and defragment, and uninstalled everything possible so that the system is
>> running as few processes as possible, but still it just happened. Any
> ideas
>> what to check?
>>
>>
>> TIA,
>> Antti Kurenniemi
>>
>>
>>
>
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