Sudden wireless network problem

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Anyway, system restore solved my problem. In fact, system restore solves
every (software) problem in my experience.
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can also leave you with a broken windows installation requiring a
re-install :-(

Phil
 
Anyway, system restore solved my problem. In fact, system restore solves
every (software) problem in my experience.
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It solves nothing in my experience, but that could be because I
always disable it because of the problems that it has caused me in
the past :-)
 
It solves nothing in my experience, but that could be because I
always disable it
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Yes, that might be the reason.

Disabling system restore IMO is not a good idea. It solves 99% of software
problems.
 
"Bobby" said:
Yes, that might be the reason.

Disabling system restore IMO is not a good idea. It solves 99% of software
problems.
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Why did you snip the bit that said "I always disable it because of
the problems that it has caused me in the past"?
 
It solves nothing in my experience, but that could be because I
always disable it because of the problems that it has caused me in
the past :-)
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I believe it induces a false sense of security in people, I have
disabled it also, I prefer to backup using norton ghost :-)
 
Why did you snip the bit that said "I always disable it because of
the problems that it has caused me in the past"?
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To have the last word, perhaps thinking that a couple of posts about problems
when system restore is used will be ignored if 'solves it in 99% of cases' is
the last thing people see on Google in a year's time. FWIW, I don't have any
System Restore in use, and in many cases it needs to be disabled when someone
has had a virus problem, so the benefits of using it get lost quickly when it
is (probably) seen as being useful. Dangerously, if a past restore point was
infected, 'going back' to 'solve' a problem might introduce a trojan/virus to
the system, once more :-( We lived without it in the past, didn't we :-)

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Dangerously, if a past restore point was
infected, 'going back' to 'solve' a problem might introduce a trojan/virus
to
the system, once more
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Also dangerously, throwing your PC out of an upstairs window might cause
your hard drive to malfunction.
 
In an earlier contribution to this discussion,
Bobby said:
Also dangerously, throwing your PC out of an upstairs window might
cause your hard drive to malfunction.
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You mean it will make a dent in the tarmac? <g>
 
Bobby said:
Also dangerously, throwing your PC out of an upstairs window might cause
your hard drive to malfunction.
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It might also land on the courier coming to leave you a card telling you
you're not in.

Owain
 
Bobby said:
Yes, that might be the reason.

Disabling system restore IMO is not a good idea. It solves 99% of software
problems.
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And, even if you cant get windows up and running, you can use the restore
settings to recover your previous backed up registry.

If you have system restore switched off, unless you manually backup your
registry, and your registry files get corrupted, then your installation is
unrecoverable.

Gaz
 
poster said:
To have the last word, perhaps thinking that a couple of posts about
problems
when system restore is used will be ignored if 'solves it in 99% of cases'
is
the last thing people see on Google in a year's time. FWIW, I don't have
any
System Restore in use, and in many cases it needs to be disabled when
someone
has had a virus problem, so the benefits of using it get lost quickly when
it
is (probably) seen as being useful. Dangerously, if a past restore point
was
infected, 'going back' to 'solve' a problem might introduce a trojan/virus
to
the system, once more :-( We lived without it in the past, didn't we :-)
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but you can repair your registry from your system restore folder.......

Not as simple as scanreg /restore (i dont understand why MS did this....)
but it does work.

erd commander is excellent at accessing full system restore functionality as
well....

Gaz
 
Bobby said:
Thanks for the suggestions.

The problem PC is a desktop system (not a laptop).

The network also includes two laptops (including the one I'm typing
this on) and another desktop PC. All connect wirelessly. All work
perfectly.
My problem PC was working perfectly. I did not make any network
changes. I am reluctant to stop messing about with TCP/IP settings.

My modem and router is a combined unit. I switched it off last night
but the problem persisted this morning when I tried again. I presume
switching it off is the same as a reboot. The lights on the
modem/router report no problems whatsoever and every other PC/laptop
works OK.
I can't connect to my modem/router web management page so something
fundamental must be going wrong between my PC and the router.

I am going to try to re-install my wireless network adaptor software.
Then I will replace my wireless adaptor to see if that helps.

Bobby
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Assuming that the problem PC runs XP, download a copy (Google) of
winsockxpfix.exe and lspfix.exe. Run both (although winsockxpfix seems
to do the work of both) to repair layered services that can become
corrupted for no apparent reason that I have been able to ascertain.
The corruption leads to exactly the type of problem you describe.

Q
 
In an earlier contribution to this discussion,
Quaoar said:
Assuming that the problem PC runs XP, download a copy (Google) of
winsockxpfix.exe and lspfix.exe. Run both (although winsockxpfix
seems to do the work of both) to repair layered services that can
become corrupted for no apparent reason that I have been able to
ascertain. The corruption leads to exactly the type of problem you
describe.
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Is it likely to fix a problem which I have with my laptop?

The laptop normally connects to the internet via my router, using its
ethernet connection - no problem. However, if I am away from home, I use it
to dial into the internet, using it's built-in modem. The problem is this:

If I dial in and then disconnect, I cannot connect again without re-booting.
Actually, that's not strictly true. I can *connect* to an ISP but I can't
actually *do* anything. If I look at the config in ipconfig /all, it's
apparent that it's left behind a stray PPP record which I can't get rid of
without re-booting - and although dialling in again creates a new one, it
doesn't pick up the gateway and DNS addresses properly. I've tried all the
ipconfig options (dnsflush, etc.) but nothing works.

Anyone got any ideas?
 
Tiscali said:
In an earlier contribution to this discussion,

Is it likely to fix a problem which I have with my laptop?

The laptop normally connects to the internet via my router, using its
ethernet connection - no problem. However, if I am away from home, I
use it to dial into the internet, using it's built-in modem. The
problem is this:

If I dial in and then disconnect, I cannot connect again without
re-booting. Actually, that's not strictly true. I can *connect* to an
ISP but I can't actually *do* anything. If I look at the config in
ipconfig /all, it's apparent that it's left behind a stray PPP record
which I can't get rid of without re-booting - and although dialling
in again creates a new one, it doesn't pick up the gateway and DNS
addresses properly. I've tried all the ipconfig options (dnsflush,
etc.) but nothing works.

Anyone got any ideas?
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Give winsockxpfix.exe a try for this. It is essentially harmless, IMO,
based on the lack of negative comments on its use.

Q
 
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