First, right-click on your wireless signal meter in the system tray. Select 'View Available Wireless Networks'. You will now be presented with a list of ALL the currently detected wireless networks within range of your machine.
In the column on the left under 'Related Tasks' you will see an item titled 'Change the order of preferred networks'. When you click on it you'll open a window with a small listing of the detected wireless signals and the option to select one of them at a time then increase or decrease its priority by clicking on 'Move up' or 'Move down'.
Below this listing box there is the option to REMOVE the detected signal altogether.
[b]Be careful to click on the correct one when Removing - or you MIGHT REMOVE YOUR OWN SIGNAL from the list.[/b]
However, having removed it, there is always the possibility that your system will inevitablt re-detect it at some future point. There is little or nothing you can do to stop this since wireless laptops are designed to be used on the move, so the wireless system is constantly scanning the airwaves to pick up wireless hotspots in cafes and airports etc etc.
The only thing you can do to be truly effective is to place your preferred wireless signal at the TOP of this list, by moving it to the UP.
Once your own signal is sitting at the top of the list, single click on it and click the 'Properties' button. Then click the 'Connection' [TAB] and you'll find a little tick-box called 'Connect when this network is in range'.
If you tick THIS option for YOUR wireless signal - you then have the option to repeat the process for any other wireless signal and UNTICK their box, that way ensuring that your laptop will NEVER lock onto that wireless signal in error, by mistake.
That is about as far as you can go, because if you are any more surgical in your approach you may well inhibit connection to ANY wireless signal, including your own. :)
