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Old 06-29-2004, 11:00 PM
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Default Disable Wireless Zero Configuration On WM2003

http://www.cent-com.com/ben/archive.../2004/06/21/wzc

"I've written a small app to disable 'Wireless Zero Configuration' for my Ipaq 4150. I think it should also work on any other Windows Mobile 2003 based Pocket PCs with built-in wireless cards. You�ll need the .NET Compact Framework (which is included in WM2003). It simply deletes the relevant registry keys (or re-adds them if deleted). After a soft-reset, you should find that the annoying popups (whenever a new AP is found) are gone. Great if you�re running something like WiFifofum to scan for available APs."

I haven't used this, but I occasionally hear complaints from people that their Pocket PC keeps on "detecting" new APs, even when their configuration is set exactly the way they want - or when they're scanning for new networks, but they don't want to attach to them. This little piece of freeware might do just the trick to work around the "eagerness" of WM2003 to detect new networks.
 
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Old 06-29-2004, 11:55 PM
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Ummm... I slapped that app together in about 30 minutes after reading this post: http://groups.google.com/groups?selm...ing.google.com

I hope people find it useful! Please let me know if it's broken in any way.

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Old 06-30-2004, 09:56 PM
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And what about this point

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The problem now is that I can not save any wireless profiles. Has
anyone else tried this and had this issue?
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Old 06-30-2004, 11:28 PM
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Yes I noted that point to, but I've never really used the wifi profiles.

I found it worked quite nicely in conbination with Wififofum when you were somewhere and needed to locate an AP: Disable WZC, reboot, start wififofum, check for the best/stronget AP, then use wififofum to associate with it.

With WZC enabled, you just get bombarded with 'do you want to connect?' and it gives no info about how good that AP is compared to the next one etc.
 
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Old 07-01-2004, 12:19 AM
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BTW it's enough to leave the dll value blank or just rename it to

"Dll"="XWZCSVC.dllX"

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Old 07-01-2004, 12:27 AM
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I have been doing some tests and once you have one profile activated if you disable ZC the PPC connect faster to your AP for that profile.
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Old 07-01-2004, 12:29 AM
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I guess it connects faster because it's not bothering to search for other APs first?
 
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Old 07-01-2004, 02:34 AM
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I guess it connects faster because it's not bothering to search for other APs first?
That�s what I think. I have tested it on my h2215 with a Senao WiFi card.
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Old 07-01-2004, 03:02 AM
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Default Deleting Registry Keys

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BTW it's enough to leave the dll value blank or just rename it to

"Dll"="XWZCSVC.dllX"
Yes, you should never delete registry keys that you might want back. Just rename the key (or the value in this case) to something else.

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Old 07-01-2004, 03:08 AM
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Default Re: Deleting Registry Keys

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BTW it's enough to leave the dll value blank or just rename it to

"Dll"="XWZCSVC.dllX"
Yes, you should never delete registry keys that you might want back. Just rename the key (or the value in this case) to something else.

Steve
Good material for the next version
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