Whats "PeerNet" for?

[pepemosca]

Hello,
I have a Dell Wireless WLAN 1520 Half MiniCard.

Also, by using this driver:
Drivers and Downloads

I got installed the PeerNet.

So, questions:

• What is it for?
• Is it necessary?
• Can I remove it?
• How do I remove it?
• Can I stop the service? The app? (From MSCONFIG.EXE)

Thanks!

(Hope this is not double post, but I can't find info)

[JonnyKay]

Nothing to worry about. I can see why you would be curious after finding a program folder named 'PeerNet'

Probably came as part of a Windows update I suspect.

Convert to JPEG, Convert to TIFF, Convert to PDF - PEERNET Inc.

[pepemosca]

No, is something for making my notebook an Access Point... Or something like that (as far as I can understand from the Help).

Is something from Dell not from a PDF convert company.

Ideas?

[Lacey]

It's a peer-to-peer network utility that lets your computer connect to another directly without going through a router. It's part of the Dell WLAN driver package. Probably the best way to get rid of it is to uninstall "DW WLAN Card Utility" through Control Panel/Programs/Uninstall a Program. Then reinstall the 1520 wireless driver through Device Manager, pointing it to folder containing the extracted driver package (probably c:\dell\drivers\R262653\R262653\Drivers_US). That should result in installing just the driver without the baggage.

[pepemosca]

Thanks! To be honest: what I did is just to deactivate the "DW something" service and the "DW something" tray software using MSCONFIG.EXE.

Thanks Lacey for the confirmation that is a useless program.

[Lacey]

That will do it.

[pepemosca]

Note: To run the "DW WLAN tools", the "DW something" service must be started.

So, it can be started from:

%windir%\system32\compmgmt.msc /s

Look for "DW..." and do a manual start.

Then the "DW WLAN tools" can be used.