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[MonkeyFiend]

ok to get some idea of why t'internet is broked, we need some info...

1. What make is your wireless router?
2. on your computer, if you click start>run>type 'cmd' and press ok, then in the black screen type 'ipconfig' what is your IP address listed as?
3. Are you using any 3rd party programs to handle wirless e.g. netgear wireless utility or is it done through windows?

From this we can tell whether the computer is actually connecting to the wireless router....

4. click start>control panel>network connections>look for network connections* and open it (if you can't see it, select 'switch to classic view' on the left first. Next right-click on your wireless network adapter and select properties, then the wireless networks tab. Is your connection in the preferred connections list? if so click on it and select properties... what is the network authentication and data encryption set to?

5. Because that was a nerdy post, I'll finish on a bad joke.. how do you get pikachu on a bus?.......................................................... you poke-him-on (apologies)

ta,

Monkey

[MonkeyFiend]

oh and something I forgot to mention... I assume you wanted to fix the PC rather than the embuggerence of a full reinstall (which would fix it) - there's an in-between option called SFC. Essentially it copies over all windows related files with clean ones from your windows CD without touching your other stuff.

The upside is that it will fix any network stack/winsock problems however the downside is the registry will be restored so you will probably need to reinstall most software such as ms-office/steam/drivers etc., again.

However since it wouldn't be a fresh insatll your drivers ad file should still be on the computer. Having said that it's still quite a drastic measure - but suspect there might be a balance against getting the computer fixed quickly..

Make sure you've backed up anything important and that you have a windows CD to hand before running this

A sneaky get around is to open regedit and save your registry to a file. Run the sfc command (below) which will clear most of your registry.

Then if things are working after that, you could try and import the registry file that you saved ealier - if the problem you were having was caused by something in the registry it will break it again. (in which case repeat the sfc command)

If it was something not related to the registry then restoring the saved registry file should make most of the software work again.

From Start > run > cmd

sfc /scannow