ipconfig /renew won't work in Vista

[Red Rebel]

Hi:

I have been having a great deal of problems getting my Vist desktop to
connect to the Internet. It was working fine until I had to remove my
wireless router. Anyway, I spent a over 2 hours on the pnone with both my
ISP and HP helpdesks but they could not resolve the issue. My XP laptop
connects fine to the Internet so I know the signal from the modem is
fine...it is an issue with Vista.

Anyway, the problem is that is Vista will not run the ipconfig /renew
command in the CMD function. I was able to use ipconfig /release OK but not
the renew. I am in the CMD funtion as an administrator so that is not the
issue. I even did a system recovery to a few days ago and reinstalled the
network adapter but that hasn't helped.

I have searched online for an answer to this problem with little success.
Is there some way to force Vista to renew ther ip address?

Thanks...

Vista Frustrated

 

[PaulB]

Did you right click Command Prompt and select "Run as administrator"? Does
the Command prompt window indicate Admistrator Command Prompt?

 

[Red Rebel]

Yes, I was in the Administrator mode. The ipconfig /renew actually returns
an error (can't remember the actual error code) and when I test with a Ping
all the packets are lost...

 

[Colin Barnhorst]

Just to be clear, running as an Admin user is not the same as running a
program elevated. Even the Admin user has to specifically run a program "As
Administrator" to do some things.

 

[Red Rebel]

Yes, I did a right click from the start menu and ran the CMD program as an
Administrator. The error message I received was not about elevation rather
Vista was unable to renew the IP.

In other words, ipconfig /renew is not working for me in Vista...the release
worked but it would not renew.

 

[Colin Barnhorst]

On the chance that it is a Winsock problem, try the guided support here if
the symtoms make it reasonalbe to do so:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/811259

Yes, I did a right click from the start menu and ran the CMD program as an
Administrator. The error message I received was not about elevation
rather
Vista was unable to renew the IP.

In other words, ipconfig /renew is not working for me in Vista...the
release
worked but it would not renew.

 

[Mr. Arnold]

Yes, I did a right click from the start menu and ran the CMD program as an
Administrator. The error message I received was not about elevation
rather
Vista was unable to renew the IP.

In other words, ipconfig /renew is not working for me in Vista...the
release
worked but it would not renew.

http://www.zimbio.com/Windows+Vista/articles/43/Reinstall+Reset+TCP+IP+Internet+Protocol+Windows

 

[Red Rebel]

Hi...thanks for the help. None of the solutions actually worked, and I
finally had to reload Vista on my machine. Everything works now...