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How to Enhance and Secure Your Wi-Fi Network

Easy-to-implement strategies for staying connected and secure on a home or public Wi-Fi network.

Becky Waring, PC World

Shutting Out Ad-Hoc Networks 18 of 18

Finally, click 'Access point (infrastructure) networks only'. Be sure to uncheck 'Automatically connect to non-preferred networks'. Now close the dialog box and save your changes. In Vista you don't have to disable ad-hoc networking, since you must manually choose to connect to an ad-hoc network in the first place.

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