From: "Geo" 

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
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> 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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