XPost: alt.windows-xp, alt.os.windows-vista   
      
    This is a bit long --- please be paient --   
      
     When I installed a wireless router several years ago, I faild to   
   save (or else have  misplaced) my wireless router password. So, about   
   two weeks ago, I went to Google and asked for "recover wireless   
   password". Featured on the first page of search results was a You Tube   
   video claiming to show how to do the recovery.   
     First it said go to:  START/Programs/ Run/ipconfig. Then, it said,   
   there will a display of data the last line being an IP address. Then   
   it said, go to that address and another screen will be displayed with   
   the last line being the desired router password.   
     Well I did all that but there was no entry on that last line.   
     So, as some of you probably know, I've been trying to find out if   
   there really is a way to recover it.   Yesterday, for kicks, I tried   
   to repeat the You Tube instructions.   
     Here's where it gets really curious!  For some reason MS(?) has   
   changed the XP system! "ipconfig" has been disabled! It produces a   
   screen for about a third of a second and then it disappears. I tried   
   the same on a Vista machine and there ipconfig has been disabled too!   
      Then I went looking for the You Tube video ---it also seems to be   
   gone. Then I went to the IP address which the first attempt gave me.   
   It no longer gives anything!   
    And, a generic Linksys address (192.168.1.1) which presumably gives   
   one factory settings  for a provided model also doesn't work!   
       Anyone want to explain all this??   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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