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    Enable Wireless without Empowering or Emanagement?

    Discussion in 'Acer' started by dickrich, Sep 22, 2006.

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    dickrich Newbie

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    So, I'd like to run my 5040 without acer's large suite of software.

    As I understand, something in the suite has wbutton.exe which needs to be in the boot.ini file for my wireless button to work. But i've only got this far.

    Does anyone know how to enable my wireless button without Empowering or Emanagement?

    Many MANY thanks in advance.
     
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    dickrich Newbie

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    GOT IT. Simply run wbutton.exe and add it into boot.ini.

    The file can be found here:

    http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=17907&page=95

    Now I am completely free of .NET and the absolute trash Acer gave with the laptop. Do they really think they can compare to the might of the software industry?
     
    dickrich, Sep 22, 2006
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