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lindaloodle
Aspirant
Nov 15, 2016
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Changed password, laptop does not connect to WIFI

  I changed my password for routeras my new security system told me it was weak.  On NetGear Genie, all looks like it is working.  I connected my Android Nook by inserting new password and it is fin...
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    lindaloodle
    Nov 16, 2016

    I was able to solve this issue by going onto the Windows 7 forums and found that I needed to delete the WIFI account that I had originally created.  Then reinsert it with the new password.  It all worked and is up and running. 

     

     

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lindaloodle
Aspirant
Nov 16, 2016

I was able to solve this issue by going onto the Windows 7 forums and found that I needed to delete the WIFI account that I had originally created.  Then reinsert it with the new password.  It all worked and is up and running.