How to enter password for Wi-Fi network on my Windows 7 PC?

windows-7 networking wireless-networking passwords wifi-configuration

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Click your wi-fi tray icon.

Right click your network > Properties

Click the security tab at the top

Type in your password:

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Another way would be to:

Click your wi-fi tray icon

Click 'Open Network And Sharing Center'

Click 'Manage Wireless Networks' on the left

Select your network, click remove at the top (then reconnect normally...):

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As people have said in the comments, it makes no sense to not use WPA2 (or even WPA) according to me. It doesn't take any more time to set it up than WEP as you use, but the rest is up to you...

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Prophet

EE Sc, Professional Automation / QA Engineer.

Updated on September 18, 2022

Comments

Prophet over 1 year

I have a home Wi-Fi network. Previously it was an open network, without any password. Recently I renamed my network and set a WEP password there. Now on my Laptop I see the renamed network but can't enter the password there. The only option I see there is connect. When tying to connect it fails, of cause. What and how should I do?
- Daniel R Hicks almost 10 years
  
  You probably need to disconnect from your old network first. Then it should appear in the list as "security enabled network" or some such. Click on it and enter the password.
- Leo Chapiro almost 10 years
  
  Take a look: superuser.com/questions/422677/…
- Kinnectus almost 10 years
  
  You should try not to use WEP, also. WPA at least. It has been proven to be incredibly easily hacked.
- Prophet almost 10 years
  
  @BigChris I do not afraid from my neighborhoods so much. WEP is 99.999999% good enough for me.
- Julian Knight almost 10 years
  
  You might as well not bother to encrypt at all! Is it really so hard to use WPA2? It shouldn't be any harder than WEP and will keep out people who aren't from your safe neighbourhood.
- Daniel B almost 10 years
  
  It’s not even just about security: 11n will not work with WEP or even WPA. It’s either no encryption or WPA2-CCMP.
Prophet almost 10 years

Thank you @snub for the answer but in my case this didn't help. I was on my work and tried to do this with my wife that was at home - this didn't work for as. Finally she asked some friend who is a computer technician, he connected to the PC remotely, made there a lot of manipulations that finally fixed the problem. I do not know what he did but not the way you wrote here. Anyway thank you again ;)!
ᔕᖺᘎᕊ almost 10 years

@Eliyahu Happy to know you got it working, there are many methods to do the same thing, so your friend could have done the same thing via command line if he wanted, which he probably did if this didn't work. PS my name's 'shub' not 'snub' ;)
Prophet almost 10 years

Sorry @shub ;) Yes, he used Prompt command line. I have no idea what did he do since I was on the work that time...
ᔕᖺᘎᕊ almost 10 years

@Eliyahu At least you got it working! He probably did something like this
Prophet almost 10 years

Now when I at home on holidays I had the same problem on other home laptop. The first way didn't work: the only option is connect when rightclicking the wi-fi network name in the tray. I gone through the second way: deleted old connection and created a new. Now it works!
ᔕᖺᘎᕊ almost 10 years

@Eliyahu Glad I could help :). Still recommend changing from WEP...