Cannot "Add Wireless Client"

I have been using iMac for years and worked well with my Airport Express. Yesterday, one of my friends brought a notebook running Windows Vista to my house and wanted to connect his machine to my airport wireless network, but it failed. I want to know if there is anything I need to do so that I can allow another pc connecting to my network? I've read through almost all docs I could find in the apple web site; when I followed one of them by opening Airport utility and tried to click on the "Add Wireless Client", I found this option is dimmed and not able to click on it? Could someone help me? thanks a lot.

That is only an option if you are using MAC address filtering. Since you are not, you don't have to worry about that.
Is your AirPort Express (AX) set to 802.11n operation only? If so, is this Windows laptop capable of 802.11n? If not you will need to configure the AX to a 802.11b/g compatible mode.
What type of wireless encryption are you using? Is this Windows laptop compatible with that?
If you are outside the US, try configuring the AX to use a channel between 1 and 11.

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