What's managing your wireless settings/config? Windows or an aftermarket/vendor installed program?

The machine was installed (built by my IT support) with Intel PROSet/Wireless WiFi manager. I’d always ignored it, and just used Windows wifi management. Well … mistake. It turns out that if you have Intel PROSet running, you need to use it to start and stop all connections — otherwise, even if you’re exclusively using the Windows manager to start/stop, it won’t save your connection information. Switching to just using the Intel manager to start/stop solved my problem.