Need a wireless connection manager

[snootalope]

I'm used to having the Intel proset wireless app and the icon it keeps down by the clock for managing wireless networks. I can't for the life of me get the windows 7 64bit download from intel for my particular wireless nic to display me a connection manager. The best I can get is a few icons in my start menu for advanced wireless, event viewer, and some other worthless shortcut. Anyone else get this working on theirs?

If not....What about setting up a shortcut to the "Wireless Connection Manager" which is accessed through network properties - in only displays until you click something else and it's gone. I'd use this thing if I could figure out a shortcut so I don't have to open 10 things to get to it.

I'd use anything that makes it easy to manage wireless networks in Windows 7, cause right now it's a serious pain. (my only complaint of windows 7 so far).

Thanks for any advice..

 

[linney]

Do you know the .exe or .dll that is launching the program? If you have the Connection Manager opened perhaps Task Manager can tell you that? A program like this might be useful too?

Process Monitor v2.8

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-au/sysinternals/bb896645.aspx

From Help and Support I quote this in case it is of any use to you.

Can I use software other than Windows to manage my wireless network connections?

Yes. Even though automatic wireless network configuration is enabled by default in Windows, you can disable it by installing and using a different program. Many network adapters come with their own wireless management software. If you're using another program to manage your wireless network connections and you want to use Windows instead, follow these steps:

Turn off or disable the other program.

Click to open Command Prompt.

Type netsh wlan show settings.

If automatic wireless network configuration is turned off, you'll see Auto configuration logic is disabled on interface "Interface name."

To enable auto configuration, type set autoconfig enabled=yes interface="Interface name."