Vista - Lost Internet Capability -- How to Recover?

I have lost internet connectivity but with a catch.

Reconstruction of events (as near as I can recall):
Installed Vista Ultimate with SP1
Installed Office 2007 Ultimate with SP1
Setup Outlook for Mail and News Groups. Working fine.

Installed Virtual PC
Create two Virtual Machines (Windows XP Pro SP3)

Host and both virtual machines were able to access the internet.

Everything seemed fine for a couple of days. Virtual machines and host were
communicating fine.

Then the host lost internet connectivity. When I tried to renew the
connection with ipconfig it said it could not find the file. Yet the guest
vritual machines still had internet access. I could stop them, stop Virtual
PC, start Virtual PC and start the virtual machines and they still had
internect connectivity.

I could not find a way to re-establish internet connectivity on the host.

Any idea what could have caused this and how to recover the host's
connectivity without restarting it?

Hi saberman,

you may find more specific help posting here...

Virtual PC - Vista Forums

or the matching MS newsgroup

ipconfig /release
ipconfig /renew

If that doesn't work try disabling the adapter, then renabling it. Make
sure the Virtual Machines are off when doing this. The internet on the
host isn't working at all? Make sure you visit a website on the
VirtualPC that you haven't visited yet (incase the VirtualPC is just
accessing cache.)

You can also disable the network adapter, unplug the cable, enable it,
and plug the cable back in and see if that helps at all. Reseting the
modem/router may automatically reasign the computer a new IP again.


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saberman wrote:What file is this that the system couldn't find?