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Since a week or so ago I have been unable to change my network settings, even
though the network is working.
I have a toshiba sattelite M45 S2652 with Windows XP Home, I presume SP2
It has built in wireless and ethernet connections, both of which have been
working perfectly up till a few days ago.
I usually set my IPs manually, this has been working fine for a few months.
I do it by opening the network connections window, right-clicking on one of
the connections, and selecting Properties. This brings up a dialog box where
I can set the TCP/IP configuration of the connection.
But a week or so ago, the Network Connection Properties dialog box began
appearing empty. Not blank, but just with none of the details filled in. The
cursor shows as an hourglass when hovering over the dialog box. The situation
does not change for hours, the information never appears. I have noticed that
CPU activity jumps to 100%, with Explorer using about 95% of it. If I try to
close the dialog box, it is reported as "Not Responding" and I must "End
Task", which causes Explorer to reset (i.e. the task bar and desktop icons
disappear for a moment).
This happens with both the ethernet connection and the wireless connection.
Also, of the little process icons that should come up on the right of the
task bar, the two network icons no longer come up.
Also, if I select "Status" from the right-click menu of either connection,
nothing happens: no dialog box appears.
But my home network (which uses the wireless connection) still works fine. I
just can't change the settings.
I think that the problem may have coincided with installing new software,
but I have uninstalled everything I can think of with no results. I also
installed the new windows patch (the one addressing the wmf problem) at the
same time.
If some system library file or files might have been affected, I'd be
grateful if anyone could let me know which ones they might be, so I can see
about replacing them with uncorrupted versions.
Alternatively, if I could learn somewhere how to set up my network
connections manually from the command-prompt, this would be an acceptable
work-around.
Thanks for any and all help.
though the network is working.
I have a toshiba sattelite M45 S2652 with Windows XP Home, I presume SP2
It has built in wireless and ethernet connections, both of which have been
working perfectly up till a few days ago.
I usually set my IPs manually, this has been working fine for a few months.
I do it by opening the network connections window, right-clicking on one of
the connections, and selecting Properties. This brings up a dialog box where
I can set the TCP/IP configuration of the connection.
But a week or so ago, the Network Connection Properties dialog box began
appearing empty. Not blank, but just with none of the details filled in. The
cursor shows as an hourglass when hovering over the dialog box. The situation
does not change for hours, the information never appears. I have noticed that
CPU activity jumps to 100%, with Explorer using about 95% of it. If I try to
close the dialog box, it is reported as "Not Responding" and I must "End
Task", which causes Explorer to reset (i.e. the task bar and desktop icons
disappear for a moment).
This happens with both the ethernet connection and the wireless connection.
Also, of the little process icons that should come up on the right of the
task bar, the two network icons no longer come up.
Also, if I select "Status" from the right-click menu of either connection,
nothing happens: no dialog box appears.
But my home network (which uses the wireless connection) still works fine. I
just can't change the settings.
I think that the problem may have coincided with installing new software,
but I have uninstalled everything I can think of with no results. I also
installed the new windows patch (the one addressing the wmf problem) at the
same time.
If some system library file or files might have been affected, I'd be
grateful if anyone could let me know which ones they might be, so I can see
about replacing them with uncorrupted versions.
Alternatively, if I could learn somewhere how to set up my network
connections manually from the command-prompt, this would be an acceptable
work-around.
Thanks for any and all help.