How to Enable User-Specific Wireless Networks in Windows 7

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Published on Thu, 17 Feb 2011 17:00:59 +0000 Indexed on 2011/02/17 23:28 UTC
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Wireless network settings in Windows 7 are global across all users, but there’s a little-known option that lets you switch them to per-user, so each user has access to only the networks they are allowed to connect to. Here’s how it all works.

How is this useful? Maybe you want to prevent a particular user from accessing the internet—if you don’t give them the wireless password, they won’t be able to get online. This could be very useful if you’ve got mini-people playing games on the family PC, but you don’t want them getting online

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