Disable Wifi Access! Any suggestions please?

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Hi everyone,

I'm new to this forum, and was wondering if anyone can help me out. I have an Acer S200, and due to restrictions at work, we need to disable internet access from our mobile devices.

I have read various posts that state that this can be achieved by disabling wifi access by altering the registry keys, however none of the methods that i have come accross seem to apply to my Acer S200 mobile 6.5.

Sorry to be a pain, but does anyone know how i can do this?

Thanks in advance everyone.

alan

What are you talking about? Disable wifi? Why do you start it at the first place?
Internet access on mobiles can be done by active synch, data connection, wifi. It 's up to you to disable them by comm manager and active synch.
Maybe I get you wrong. What exactly do you need to stop?

Hi fresco,

thanks for the reply. Well, the organisation wants to prevent the devices from having the ability to connect to the internet.

I understand that there may not be a complete solution, but at the very least I would definitely like to disable wifi completely, since this is what I've read others have done. The devices do not have data connection plans, hence this option isn't a problem.

Apparently I can disable the wifi by altering the registry keys? Any ideas anyone?

Thanks.

hiya...


any ideas guys?

can anyone direct me to anything that could be remotely useful to the above?

Thanks

Hi alan,
let me get this straight.You work at an organization that has unencrypted wifi access
but doesn`t want it`s employees using it?
If your company`s wi-fi network gives access to the internet to anyone that connects to it why doesn`t the IT manager set a password to the network or enable mac filtering (prevents unauthorized devices-mac addresses from connecting to the network)?
I don`t know how you would disable the wifi chip from the registry
but if i were you i would buy a second phone for work use only.

SKTools

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Try SKTools maybe there is a solution in the app.

You can disable the WiFi in registry:

Go to "[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\State\Hardware]" and change the WiFi string to 0.

In the Comm. Manager the WiFI is disappeared and you are not able to connect.

thanks brainmaster.

the method that you suggested only removes the wifi display from comm manager, however that can easily be bypassed using the windows menu, to open wifi.

thanks...

then delete that one from the windows menu from Device > Windows > Start Menu