You might try a system restore. Pick a restore point before this problem
occurred


"heidipups" <kopricious@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> My daughter logged on to an unsecured neighborhood wireless network.
> After she did, and shut down and re-booted the machine the next day,
> some pretty strange things have happened that I do not seem to be able
> to repair. The sound was uninstalled as well as her wireless adapter.
> The sound is working again. The wireless adapter is not working
> properly now. We are getting a message that the wireless adapter state
> is not found in the registry. I have deleted the 3945ABG Intel Pro
> wireless software and reinstalled using Intel download software version
> and turned on (started) everything that I can find to start and yet the
> registry entry is not recreated. I also suspect the missing file is
> the WLAN as it shows a dependency and that it is missing. Can anyone
> advise us on this? I've tried several things now and some of those
> have gotten us closer to being fixed but not completely. Is there a
> programming floating around out there that would have done this and
> might still reside on the computer and that needs to be removed?
> Thanks...... Her machine is a Viso laptop Windows XP Professional.
>