Access Connections problem after Vista to XP downgrade

[warny1]

Hi,

I have recently downgraded from Vista to XP and I have ThinkVantage loaded along with Access Connections. The problem I have is if I try to use it to control my wireless through Access Connections it complains that my wireless radio is not on and asks if I would like to turn it on. I select yes and nothing happens.

If I go to Access Connections>Tools>Find Wireless networks, the Find Wireless Networks is greyed out. So then I go to ThinkVantage resource center, select "wireless" > "power on/off wireless radios" and there is no WiFi radio option.

The driver is up to date (4965 AGN 11.5.0.36 11/27/2007), the wireless radio "is" on and obviously working because I'm connected when MSFT is controlling the adapter, I have all of the prerequisites installed (power management driver v1.44 and hotkey 2.07.1003). I can see my bluetooth wireless through Access Connections, but nothing else.

I am hoping someone else has experienced this and knows a solution. I have seen posts on the web that say to "reinstall" the OS. I would love to use Access Connections as it is very valuable, however I don't know that I have the time to reinstall the OS and take care of everything that goes along with doing that. BTW: The OS was just installed a few weeks ago. I have even gone as far as uninstalling the wireless driver and rebooting. MSFT just replaces the driver upon reboot.

Any help you can give would be appreciated.

Warny

[jdhurst]

Try uninstalling Access Connections including all its profiles. Then uninstall the wireless card. Shut down. Restart. Install the Wireless Driver. Shut down again. Restart. Install Access Connections. See if that works (it usually does for me). ... JDH