When you connect to a new wireless network in Windows 7 there's a popup where you identify the network as either Home, Work or Public. The wireless network remains with a yellow warning mark until you choose one of the 3 options. In my DELL laptop this popup usually takes many minutes to appear and sometimes I have to reset the wireless NIC (via troubleshooting process usually) to force it to popup.
Is there a way to make this window pop up manually?
Best Answer
Well for a Windows system, the network location is an important aspect of network security, as windows manages different levels of security and firewall settings for different network locations.
Whenever you setup a new connection it is asked to choose proper network location, but if you want to select network location manually:
Go to
Control Panel>Network and Internet>Network and Sharing CenterYou will see this type of window:
As you see, click on the link named
Public Networkjust below Broadband Connection (may be your connection name be different).It will open the desired dialog box for you:
P.S.: you can check the box saying Treat all future... to set all network location at once, it will not disturb you again.