If my laptop wakes up from sleep, it connects to my neighbors open wifi ap, and I cant find a way to stop it from happening. This to me is a massive flaw in security. I often dont notice (because you dont expect a quality OS to connect to any old open wifi ap willy nilly), and could be exposing myself to hackers. Is there a way to stop this from happening?

1. open Network and Sharing Center 2. in the left pane click on Manage wireless network 3. right-click your network SSID and select Properties 4. In the Connection tab check Connect automatically when this network is in range

I have the same problem. A while ago I connected to the neighbours open wifi to check on something, because our internet had gone down. Every time I now turn my laptop on, it automatically connects to their network, even though I have a perfectly working protected wifi network set as the top priority in the list of networks. How can I stop it connecting to the unprotected one? Their network is not in the listings in the step above. Maybe there is a reference to it in the registry somewhere that needs removing or something? I don't have a clue where to look though. Thanks.