Sounds like it's trying to establish a network using Bluetooth or the
Smartphone. Have you tried removing the offending device from Device
Manager and rebooting?
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"PEVDaddy" <PEVDaddy@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:B1A7FAEA-1CFD-4B96-8215-30BFE81DB021@microsoft.com...
> Hello,
>
> I have a pc with Vista Ultimate installed. It is a part of a 2k3 domain
> and
> was working fine (except Itunes sucks but that's another issue) until I
> plugged my smartphone in. Now the networking always shows as identifying
> and
> I cannot get any web pages to show up nor can I access any of the other
> machines on my network. (I could before) The really weird thing is that I
> can open a cmd prompt and ping www.yahoo.com and it resolves and gets a
> reply. Does anyone have any idea what might be happening?