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We have a laptop running windows 7 professional. We have disabled the allow to turn off power options but the computer still has to “connect” to the network when you return to your logon screen after locking it for a few mins.

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wireless? if it goes to sleep it will power off the radio, and powering it back from sleep will cause a delay while the radio comes back online…

wired? ive never seen a nic get turned off just because of a screen/account lock. verify that this is happeneing by getting the computers ip address, then run this from dos prompts on another computer:

ping -t X.X.X.X ( x.x.x.x being the ip)

Now, lock the computer. if you still get replies then it is still connected.

If the ping starts failing then wow ive never seen that, perhaps some deep obscure GPO policy locking down the nic on account lock?

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Go into Device Manager and find your WLAN NIC. Get properties. There is a tab that says POWER MANAGEMENT. Adjust that setting to indicate NOT to power down the hardware during sleep/low power state. See if that helps. I’m not sure if that ties directly to the power management applet in the control panel or not but it’s something to try.

Deacon

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Whenever peeps complain about the same thing at our workplace, it’s always that!

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It is wired, and I have changed those settings twice now, Is there something that we know of that would force it to turn back on (other than user error). Also its more of when you unlock the computer the internet connection icon spins like it is getting address.

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We do this and it seems to turn itself back on after a few days.