Airport utility doesn't find Airport express?

I have recently updated my laptop to one using Windows 7 (all worked fine on old laptop using windows vista) & installed relevent software etc and all works fine untill i shut down the laptop. When i come to use laptop / Airport express again Airport utility wont find the Airport express unless i unplug & plug back in the Airport express! All then works fine until i shutdown again, basically it doesn't seem to hold / store the information once the laptop is shutdown. Any help welcome please, thanks.

Thanks for the update - I would recommend a factory reset of the Express and then do the setup again and accept the defaults - to do this, unplug the Express and plug it back in while holding in the reset button with a paperclip - when the light starts blinking, release the button - wait until the light blinks slowly which indicates that the Express is in factory mode - you can then start from scratch using the assist me feature of the Airport Utility - you probably already know this but there are several things that you must keep in mind the first is that you cannot extend a non Apple network wirelessly - you can do it via ethernet and "create" a network with the same name and security type as the router or create a new wirless network with a new name - but the only thing that you can do wirelessly is create an access point to connect remote devices to the Express via ethernet - and any Apple device connected to a non Apple router would have to be in bridge mode -

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