Re: internet fudged up on my laptop

sambojones wrote:
> Hi I hope this is the right forum as its my first post here. I'm
> having some issues with my lenovo 3000 N100 laptop with vista on it.
> I have it hooked up to my wireless network and its been working fine
> but a few days ago it stopped getting internet access it connects to
> the network fine and shows high signal strength but won't connect to
> the internet via the wireless and when i tried hooking it up with
> hardwire to the modem it still won't connect. My brothers use my
> laptop sometimes too so maybe they did something to it. after trying
> to repair the problem it always comes up with a message saying that
> windows cannot automatically fix the problem and that i have to
> contact my network admisnistrator which is me and I have no idea
> whats wrong. Any help yall can provide would be awesome cuz I've
> been fooling with it for a couple of days and haven't made an inch of
> progress.
>
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Have you tried shutting it down altogether and turnng it on again? (actually
turn it off/shut it down, not a hibernate/restart, takes a while when you
restart (makes it restore/reconnect/flush buffers/etc) but seems to fix a
plethora of wierd stuff..

Peter Pan <PeterPanNOSPAM@akamailnospam.com> wrote:
> sambojones wrote:
> > having some issues with my lenovo 3000 N100 laptop with vista on it.

> Have you tried shutting it down altogether and turnng it on again?

Vista does seem to have some issues when standby/hibernating, and then
coming back to a WiFi connection different from what was there when it
last running.

Various things might fix it:
easy
ipconfig /release ; ipconfig /renew

more work, usually harmless
The windows GUI "repair"

should be harmless, just takes a while
shutdown ; startup (noted by Peter Pan)

Might be helpful, but might require some reconfiguration of custom settings
This restores most tcp-ip settings back to default.
Netsh int ip reset c:\reset.txt

General gnashing of teeth and reviewing hundreds of web pages about Vista
connectivity problems is the remaining step.

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