http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ How-To Geek Forums Topic: Save Vista WiFi info (WPA/WPA2) to USB en Sun, 08 Nov 2009 09:57:10 +0000 http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/save-vista-wifi-info-wpawpa2-to-usb#post-50197 Mon, 29 Sep 2008 13:04:34 +0000 Spawn 50197@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p>Thanks.....Vista is very different then XP....emmm....it was just for my knowledge to know..not really important...it would be great if I had to work on a laptop, say, x30 laptops, and charge for all of them, but get the job done real quick, viola, more profit for me..lol you catch my drift? </p> <p>Cheers... </p> http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/save-vista-wifi-info-wpawpa2-to-usb#post-49802 Fri, 26 Sep 2008 20:13:09 +0000 Justin 49802@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p>The reason that happens is because that wizard is to make the laptop be a wireless access point just like the router is a wireless access point.<br /> You still use it to get a flash drive with the saved settings on it. The trick is after saving the settings to a flash drive is the cancel the wizard then the flash drive settings will work for the router on other computers.<br /> I've done it with Windows XP and it works great. I'm not sure about Vista as I don't have any laptops with Vista to test it on. </p> http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/save-vista-wifi-info-wpawpa2-to-usb#post-49783 Fri, 26 Sep 2008 18:14:51 +0000 Spawn 49783@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p>Control panel &gt; Network and Sharing center &gt; Connect to a network &gt; Set up a connection or network &gt; Set up a wireless router or access point &gt; next &gt; Next, &lt;Windows detected network but not setup automatically &gt; Create wireless network settings and save to usb flash drive.</p> <p>Assuming you know what each &gt; does, which I am confident you do.....</p> <p>For the SSID, I used the Access point's SSID name...then the next step asked for a passphrase....I thought this part is a password, or use my WPA2-P passphrase? </p> <p>So, there ya go....see if you can get any hints from there.... </p> http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/save-vista-wifi-info-wpawpa2-to-usb#post-49764 Fri, 26 Sep 2008 16:31:11 +0000 ScottW 49764@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p>Which wizard were you using? I was going to take a look at it, but I have never used one before. </p> http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/save-vista-wifi-info-wpawpa2-to-usb#post-49749 Fri, 26 Sep 2008 15:12:41 +0000 Spawn 49749@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p>I am geeky too, but I was just playing around. I wasn't trying to be lazy...I love to do these things, setting up and stuff...</p> <p>Yeah it was from the wizard setup....I also use mac filtering too, and no broadcast....</p> <p>I'll just stick with the geeky method...I thought I would give it a shot to try it...</p> <p>PSK was the passphrase, i.e. like a password. It automatically generated the passphrase, i.e. wpa key. I am using wpa2-personal. Like in the future, if I get called in to do a job to setup there wifi networks...save time, make some dough....lol...I had the Verizon FiOS installed..this guy had the usb flash drive...boom took him only 5 seconds to setup...then left...very quick...was looking to do the same...no biggie....</p> <p>Cheers </p> http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/save-vista-wifi-info-wpawpa2-to-usb#post-49740 Fri, 26 Sep 2008 14:23:14 +0000 ScottW 49740@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p>Spawn, hello and welcome. Is there a method that you are following now to save this data? It sounds as if you are running some kind of wizard.</p> <p>Other than the SSID ("name") and the PSK ("password"), do you know what other information is being saved? If it were me, I would just copy the PSK to the flash drive and setup the new system manually, but I'm geeky that way and don't have a lot of machines to configure. </p> http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/save-vista-wifi-info-wpawpa2-to-usb#post-49729 Fri, 26 Sep 2008 13:30:28 +0000 Spawn 49729@http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/ <p>I've been trying to figure out how to save my WiFi settings to a USB Flash drive. However, every time I try to follow the steps necessary to save my WiFi settings to be used on other laptops without having to input any information. </p> <p>So, after I accomplished the setup to save my WiFi setups which is using WPA2, I, all of a sudden, lose connections to my wifi router. I then have to re-enter the information again. </p> <p>Does anyone have any good ways to save the settings that the wifi uses to usb, then when another laptop wants to use my wifi connections, I can just insert the usb drive in, viola, done...then remove it to do other laptops...</p> <p>Any help would be greatly appreciated...</p> <p>Cheers </p>