In this post we’ll be discussing Network Connections in Windows 7 and 8, specifically how to delete or rename them. I do a fair amount of traveling for work and everywhere I go I need to use my laptop.
Freeware Wind Onda Connection Manager Mw833up Downloads Wind Onda Connection Manager Mw833up Freeware Show:| Free| Advertisement Connect to the Internet quickly and securely from any location with Avanquest Connection Manager. Home > Windows > Windows 7. Go to Device Manager and click on View on the main menu and Show hidden devices on the drop-down menu. Then, in the pane below the main menu, go to the Non-Plug and Play Drivers list and expand it. Assuming you are using Windows 7: Before you alter anything, make sure to create a Restore Point.
I turn on my phones wireless hotspot, connect and I’m always prompted to chose the type of network, be it home, work or public. Each time I choose the same type of network and then I’m told that I’ve connected to NetworkXXX where Network is proceeded by a sequential number. Being that I’m a little bit OCD with electronics, it bothers me that I have multiple connections to the same device for no apparent reason. Removing these connections isn’t as obvious as you’d think either. So lets see how to delete these network connections in Windows 7 first. Delete / Rename Network Connections In Windows 7 First things first let get into the “Network and Sharing Center”.
There’s a few ways to do this if you don’t know how so lets see your options: 1 – Hit the Windows button on the keyboard or click the Windows start button, immediately start typing “Network and Sharing Center”. It should appear in the list and you should select it.
2 – Right click on the network icon in the notification bar (those little icons in the bottom left corner of your screen) and click on “Open Network and Sharing Center” 3 – Go to your control panel, then Network and Internet and then Network and lastly Network and Sharing Center. You should now see a screen that looks like the below: Now click on the icon under “View your Active Networks” (Where the red arrow in the diagram above points). You should now see the below screen: On this screen you can rename the network connection or you can click on the link at the bottom left hand corner (where the red arrow points) that says “Merge and delete network locations”. If we click on the link we’ll come to the below window: In the above window we can delete the network connections or merge them together. You can use typical multi-select features of windows to select various connections, including ctrl-a, shift select and ctrl select.
Delete / Rename Network Connections In Windows 8 Thanks to Microsoft, Windows 8 doesn’t have an easy way to accomplish this same process. The link to modify or delete the connections is no where to be found. The only way to remove the connections in Windows 8 is to do so by using the registry editor. 1- To open the registry editor press the Windows + R keys to open the Run dialog, type regedit, and press Enter.
If prompted by UAC, then click on Yes. 2- Go to this folder: HKEYLOCALMACHINE SOFTWARE Microsoft Windows NT CurrentVersion NetworkList Profiles. 3- The Profiles folder will provide a list of all the network locations (past or recent) that you have used. Each network location is represented by a subfolder.
4- Here you can delete individual sub-folders to remove individual connections or if you’d like to delete all the connections simply delete all of the sub-folders within the Profiles folder. 5- To rename a network location, click on the corresponding sub-folder and edit the key named ProfileName. Input the new name for the network location. If you’ve found this article helpful please consider commenting or sharing!
I have seen other threads about how to resolve this problem but none have worked for me. I discovered the resolution that worked for me and thought I would share it.
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Perhaps someone can add their knowledge of the root cause of the problem. I use a laptop that is a DHCP client. I had logged into it this morning and everything was working fine - internet access, email, etc.
Then, out of the blue, I lost internet access ONLY. I could ping my gateway and internal sites and servers (email was fine) but I could not get out to google or any other EXTERNAL site even though I was just browsing them a few minutes ago. I had already updated my nic drivers a few weeks ago and nothing had changed on my laptop recently - no updates, no new software or hardware, etc.
I do not use McAfee (found several references to an update that caused this issue), and I ran this command that I found may help: 'netsh int ip reset c: resetlog.txt However, no change after rebooting. I had also noticed that my time was not synced with the DC so I decided to disjoin and rejoin the domain. That fixed the issue for me. Any ideas what I should look for to get at the root cause of the problem?
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How would that prevent me from browsing the internet even with a valid IP stack? Address, DNS1, DNS2, GW, were all fine and then internet access only just stopped working. I could still browse my local subnet.
Edited Aug 10, 2015 at 21:47 UTC. Thanks for the replies but nothing changed - AD wise or laptop wise. Just all of a sudden I was unable to browse the internet only and had the yellow '!' Over my nic icon in my system tray. We have no web filters that look at AD. We use websense to block websites based on their content or category.
I was not using IE. Time was off by about 2 minutes. How could a bad cable prevent you from accessing the internet only? I could browse everthing on my internal network. I even had an RDP session open to a server so I could get to the internet to see if I had the latest network drivers. No one else reported a problem, just me and my laptop.;) Edited Mar 24, 2014 at 15:14 UTC.
+1 DNS I don't know if your server is DNS as well as AD or what, but we've seen issues with our ISP where we maintain all network and so forth, but Internet stops. Turns out the ISP's DNS server is down, leaving us half functional. A few workstations happen to have Google DNS and were still working, but since the router uses ISP DNS, everybody else was offline. A quick test for DNS would simply be a ping to an IP address. It helps to keep a handful of IPs in your little black book for Google, Amazon etc so you can ping them if needed. If you can ping an IP but not a FQDN, there you go. I have since added public DNS as backup on the router.
At first I thought DNS too, but I tried to ping google.com and got the IP (resolved) but no replies. I did not specifically try to ping the IP because it resolved, but to me it almost looks like a routing issue. However I was the only one experiencing the issue (that I am aware of). Could it be that my AD account to get corrupt so the full network settings were not applied, althought ipconfig /all looked good and even Microsoft diagnostics shows it was configured correctly: I'm just trying to figure out what happened but am scratching my head. I have Windows 7 Professional 64-bit and had the same “No Internet Access” problem through my wireless connection on my laptop. I read so many posts and websites regarding the issue, and it all boiled down to a corrupted DHCP Client Service Dependencies drivers, namely afd.sys and http.sys, that prevented it from starting and connecting properly to the DNS server and obtaining a dynamic IP Address from the DHCP server. AFD —Ancillary Function Driver— for Winsock is a core driver for networking and Internet communications that gets targeted by malware programs, and when anti-virus programs remove malware, AFD gets corrupted, and maybe NetIO Legacy Support drivers, e.g.
TCP/IP driver, namely tcpip.sys. It is a common problem.
CAUTION: Before you start altering your system, please make sure to create a restore point. Here is the fix: Go to Device Manager and click on View on the main menu and Show hidden devices on the drop-down menu. Then, in the pane below the main menu, go to the Non-Plug and Play Drivers list and expand it. Look for any driver that is flagged for problems. I had afd.sys and http.sys flagged as they were corrupted. You need to replace those corrupted drivers in the “C: windows systems32 drivers ” folder with fresh ones. I extracted mine from Windows 7 Professional 64-bit Installation DVD—I found a great tutorial on how to extract files from Windows 7 Installation DVD on “ ” Note: It is crucial to obtain/extract the corresponding drivers to your type of Windows 7 Installation, mine is Professional 64-bit.
It is all explained in the above referenced tutorial. You will need to “take ownership” to replace the drivers—I found a great tutorial on how to take ownership in Windows 7 on “ ” and followed Option One for speed. You can follow the option that suits you better. (Make sure to replace and not keep a copy of the corrupted files when prompted.) Once those DHCP dependencies drivers are replaced with the right fresh ones and the system is rebooted, your machine is set to go.
Preventive Maintenance Note: Once your system is up and running, create a restore point. There is a multitude of possibilities for that. It could be just a matter of enabling it, corrupt device driver software, hardware device is not connected, or simply the hardware device is defective. Assuming you are using Windows 7: Before you alter anything, make sure to create a Restore Point. Now, try to enable the LAN connection you are using through Network and Sharing Center and Change adapter settings.
See what happens, what messages you get. To update the device driver software, simply go to Device Manager, right-click on the LAN adapter you are using under Network adapters, click on Update Driver Software, and then follow the instructions. If that doesn't work, a simple test would be to shutdown the system, physically disconnect your LAN network adapter, and then boot the system up again. Once completely booted up, shutdown the system again, physically re-install the LAN adapter back on, and then boot up the system, it should detect it automatically and install the driver software it can find for it, see what messages you get. (Note: If you are using a USB network adapter for your LAN/Internet connection, you don't need to shutdown the system to perform the test.) At any rate, if you don't have a working driver software for your device, you will need to download it from your vendor through a machine with a working Internet connection and then install it on your system of concern.
Worst case scenario, you will need a new network adapter for your LAN/Internet. Edited Jan 14, 2015 at 16:15 UTC.
Richard Wright wrote: I discovered the problem but forgot to update this post sorry. The problem ended up being our firewall had IP Shunning enabled temporarily. Since I was a network admin I would ping servers, etc. The firewall considered my laptop a threat and shunned it. Have your firewall admin just confirm that was not set for yours. I'm having this issus with my network.
When I move a PC on my network they get disconnected from internet but not the local network. I don't see my Firewall ( Watchguard) blocking anything.
What is shunning? Is that on the DNS part or the firewall?? Thanks for your time I know this is an older thread.