The recycling company that we used is subsidized by the state, and destoys everything ;-( Not my choice at all, but it was difficult to get anyone to take e-junk before the state fee thing. I forget who they are now, ut they had a catchy name in the ad on KCBS.
Here's a generic page:
It's not as bad here as it sounds. There's a thrift shop "chain store" about 15 miles away (Value Village) that has some neat stuff (lots of CRT monitors these days) and profits go to charity. There's also a recycling bbs system (I forget what it's called) where you can post items to give away, or that you want. I can also drive to Montreal, and pay a bit more in one of the eJunk places. Toronto would be closer but I won't go there on a dare.
Hi,
The DLink client is a complete drop-in and not just an interface for WZC.
In fact, I have the WZC service completetly disabled under services.msc
"Use Windows to manage your wireless connections" (or whatever it is) doesn't even appear in the advanced settings for the WNIC as the WZC isn't running...
I checked my machine, DLink DWL-G630, on WinXP SP2. I have the little stacked bar signal thing in the systray, but if I double click on it, the WZC window opens. You could turn off WZC, but WZC is the default.
Yeah, the DLink drivers and client doesn't change your default manager over from WZC to DLink on installation. Nice of it, I suppose... Thats the first thing I always change though...
When I click the wireless NIC icon, it opens up a dialogue box that is pretty much the same for any other NIC.. Status, Network, Speed, etc. The only difference between it and the wired NIC dialogue boxes is that it also has a "View Wireless Network" button that would launch WZC, if WZC service was running. Clicking on it gets a dialogue box: "If you want Windows to configure this wireless connection, start the Windows Zero Configuration service." It then refers to:
When I click DLink's icon (little yellow 'D') in the system tray, it brings up the DLink client. I use DLink's client for management as I don't trust WZC...
Oh, I just re-read your post and realized also that by little stacked bar signal thing you probably meant the DLink client and not the wireless NIC icon...
That would also be a different client than the one I'm using. My client has a little yellow 'D' for an icon in the system tray..
The card in this computer is an AirPremier DWL-AG530 802.11a/g card... We probably are using different DLink clients....
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