It seems like the best course of action would be to retire those computers and go shopping. I mean, Win XP has been superseeded by Vista, which has been superseeded by Win 7, which has been superseeded by Win 8, you know were I'm going with this I still believe that the best course of action is to retire those computers with an old, insecure operating system but since SP3 is still available from Microsoft, I leave it to you to decide.
If you do, I will not, repeat NOT be able to assist if anyting goes wrong! SP3 from Microsoft Update Catalog After clicking "download", choose your language and where to save it. I, once again, recommend to retire those computers and go shopping! Changing to WEP is not recommended, as it is easily hackable. There are tons of tutorials online anyone can follow and crack your password and use your internet connection for free.
However, in cases where updating your laptop to SP3 is not possible, or this can be used. Another probable cause for this error message and being unable to connect to WPA secured wireless access points is lack of support for these encryption protocols, by the hardware network chipset. Older chipsets may not support WPA and WPA 2, search online for your network chipset technical specs to know if this is the case.
In this case, the only solution for you is to upgrade the WLAN chipset possible on desktop PCs fitted with Wifi cards, not very viable on a laptop or change your encryption method to WEP. In some cases, the wireless LAN chipset manufacturer might have released newer drivers that add support for these newer security protocols. Changing to WEP is not recommended, as it is easily hackable.
There are tons of tutorials online anyone can follow and crack your password and use your internet connection for free. However, in cases where updating your laptop to SP3 is not possible, or this can be used. Another probable cause for this error message and being unable to connect to WPA secured wireless access points is lack of support for these encryption protocols, by the hardware network chipset.
Older chipsets may not support WPA and WPA 2, search online for your network chipset technical specs to know if this is the case. In this case, the only solution for you is to upgrade the WLAN chipset possible on desktop PCs fitted with Wifi cards, not very viable on a laptop or change your encryption method to WEP.
In some cases, the wireless LAN chipset manufacturer might have released newer drivers that add support for these newer security protocols. There are two methods that you could probably try to enable WPA2 for your wireless connection. Click Start and type Run that opens a dialog box, now type ncpa. Check in the below dialog box and click OK to close. Click OK again. Click the wireless icon in the bottom of the taskbar to display the below window, Click View Wireless Networks.
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