WPA under VISTA - any idea..?

I need to use WPA - but I can not find how...

Try this - get your old style settings view and you can do it pretty much
the same as you could in XP:
http://www.vistabase.co.uk/welcome.p...xpstylenetwork

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"Miroslaw Rusin" <miroslaw.rusin@infoshark.pl> wrote in message
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>I need to use WPA - but I can not find how...

I thought WPA means Windows Product Activation, what does it have to do with
creating a shortcut to Network on the desktop?

You can launch WPA, by clicking Start > Control Panel > System > under
Activation > click Change product key

This will relaunch the Activation Wizard allowing you to change your product
key and activation Windows again.
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> Try this - get your old style settings view and you can do it pretty much
> the same as you could in XP:
> http://www.vistabase.co.uk/welcome.p...xpstylenetwork
>
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>

I thought it was a wireless networking authentication?

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"Andre Da Costa [Extended64]" <andred25@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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>I thought WPA means Windows Product Activation, what does it have to do
>with creating a shortcut to Network on the desktop?
>
> You can launch WPA, by clicking Start > Control Panel > System > under
> Activation > click Change product key
>
> This will relaunch the Activation Wizard allowing you to change your
> product key and activation Windows again.
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>

All these synonyms and stuff are getting me all confused ( Far too many of
them... I think I will take that holiday to Scotland after all )

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"Andre Da Costa [Extended64]" <andred25@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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>I thought WPA means Windows Product Activation, what does it have to do
>with creating a shortcut to Network on the desktop?
>
> You can launch WPA, by clicking Start > Control Panel > System > under
> Activation > click Change product key
>
> This will relaunch the Activation Wizard allowing you to change your
> product key and activation Windows again.
> --
> --
> Andre
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>

ZW [Mon, 10 Apr 2006 13:12:47 +0100]:

>I thought [WPA] was a wireless networking authentication?

Then why do I remember "WPA" stamped on sidewalks, with
(now) 70-year-old timestamps? If this is Wi-Fi WPA, then
no doubt it will. Lots of older stuff out there that
won't, however, and if you go WPA* then everything has to
be WPA. Most radio network cameras, for example, that
you but today only do WEP. That'll never work on a WPA-
enabled AP/network.

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Your tip refers to WEP - Wireless Equivolency Protocol
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>I thought it was a wireless networking authentication?
>
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>

I thought there was:

WEP - relatively secure
WPA - verrrrryyy secure :-o

?

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"Andre Da Costa [Extended64]" <andred25@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Your tip refers to WEP - Wireless Equivolency Protocol
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On Mon, 10 Apr 2006 21:22:03 +0100, "Zack Whittaker" <admin@zacknet.co.uk>
wrote:

>I thought there was:
>
>WEP - relatively secure
>WPA - verrrrryyy secure :-o

It's more like,

WEP - as secure as a graham cracker life raft.

WPA - faster to crack than WEP now.

WPA2 - somewhat secure...for now.
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WEP (Wired Equivalent Privacy) - False security, but better than nothing.
WPA (Wi-Fi Protected Access) - Secure.
WPA2 - The best for now.

Note that many wireless devices in the home will not support WPA (or WPA2),
so one needs to figure out security versus convenience - or use two wireless
Access Points and limiting the functionality of the WEP-based network. A
quick overview of the terms is available at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wi-Fi_Protected_Access.

Regards,

=D-

Derek R. Flickinger
Interactive Homes, Inc.

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>I thought there was:
>
> WEP - relatively secure
> WPA - verrrrryyy secure :-o
>
> ?
>
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