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| | Messed Up big time Well I was playing with a registry fix tool on my home Vista machine and not thinking, I ran it on my work XP machine. Stupid me .... I have a few errors but the biggest thing seems to be my TCP/IP stack is hosed. I can't get a DHCP address assigned either wireless or wired. I have no network connectivity. The machine is a IBM Thinkpad and I don't have systems disks as it came pre-installed and is probably on some hidden partition or something. OS is XP Professional ... any idea what my options are? I feel like such a dufus. -- beckp ------------------------------------------------------------------------ beckp's Profile: http://forums.techarena.in/member.php?userid=30383 View this thread: http://forums.techarena.in/showthread.php?t=812056 http://forums.techarena.in |
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| | Re: Messed Up big time First check if the registry tool has an undo option, many do. Otherwise try System Restore to a Date/Time before you made the changes: Start/All Programs/Accessories/System Tools/System Restore. In the future be careful with such tools especially if you are using someone else's computer. I suggest not using those tools for reasons such as this and they seldom return any noticeable results. If you do use them, you must become familiar with them so you are already prepared for such an event. You should also be familiar enough so you can recognize if the key recommended for deletion is necessary or not. Do not blindly delete something just because some tool said it was OK. It is your computer and you reap the benefits or suffer the consequences, not the registry tools manufacturer. -- Jupiter Jones [MVP] http://www3.telus.net/dandemar http://www.dts-l.org "beckp" <beckp.2wbjvd@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:beckp.2wbjvd@xxxxxx Quote: > > Well I was playing with a registry fix tool on my home Vista machine > and > not thinking, I ran it on my work XP machine. Stupid me .... I have > a > few errors but the biggest thing seems to be my TCP/IP stack is > hosed. > I can't get a DHCP address assigned either wireless or wired. I have > no > network connectivity. The machine is a IBM Thinkpad and I don't have > systems disks as it came pre-installed and is probably on some > hidden > partition or something. OS is XP Professional ... any idea what my > options are? I feel like such a dufus. > > > -- > beckp > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > beckp's Profile: http://forums.techarena.in/member.php?userid=30383 > View this thread: http://forums.techarena.in/showthread.php?t=812056 > > http://forums.techarena.in |
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| | Re: Messed Up big time Hi, Try rebuilding the TCP/IP stack with the netsh command. Click start/run and type CMD, then click ok. From the prompt, run: netsh int ip reset resetlog.txt Then close the prompt and reboot the machine. -- Best of Luck, Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/ Windows help - www.rickrogers.org My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com "beckp" <beckp.2wbjvd@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:beckp.2wbjvd@xxxxxx Quote: > > Well I was playing with a registry fix tool on my home Vista machine and > not thinking, I ran it on my work XP machine. Stupid me .... I have a > few errors but the biggest thing seems to be my TCP/IP stack is hosed. > I can't get a DHCP address assigned either wireless or wired. I have no > network connectivity. The machine is a IBM Thinkpad and I don't have > systems disks as it came pre-installed and is probably on some hidden > partition or something. OS is XP Professional ... any idea what my > options are? I feel like such a dufus. > > > -- > beckp > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > beckp's Profile: http://forums.techarena.in/member.php?userid=30383 > View this thread: http://forums.techarena.in/showthread.php?t=812056 > > http://forums.techarena.in > |
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| | Re: Messed Up big time Folks, thanks to all for the helpful hints, I appreciate all the fast responds. The tools in my "Access-IBM" application had the registry backed up and I was able to restore to working order just fine ... -- beckp ------------------------------------------------------------------------ beckp's Profile: http://forums.techarena.in/member.php?userid=30383 View this thread: http://forums.techarena.in/showthread.php?t=812056 http://forums.techarena.in |
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| | Re: Messed Up big time System Restore... Dale "beckp" <beckp.2wbjvd@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:beckp.2wbjvd@xxxxxx Quote: > > Well I was playing with a registry fix tool on my home Vista machine and > not thinking, I ran it on my work XP machine. Stupid me .... I have a > few errors but the biggest thing seems to be my TCP/IP stack is hosed. > I can't get a DHCP address assigned either wireless or wired. I have no > network connectivity. The machine is a IBM Thinkpad and I don't have > systems disks as it came pre-installed and is probably on some hidden > partition or something. OS is XP Professional ... any idea what my > options are? I feel like such a dufus. > > > -- > beckp > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > beckp's Profile: http://forums.techarena.in/member.php?userid=30383 > View this thread: http://forums.techarena.in/showthread.php?t=812056 > > http://forums.techarena.in > |
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| | Re: Messed Up big time Glad to hear it. Thank you for letting us know you resolved it. -- Jupiter Jones [MVP] http://www3.telus.net/dandemar http://www.dts-l.org "beckp" <beckp.2wc8vd@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:beckp.2wc8vd@xxxxxx Quote: > > Folks, thanks to all for the helpful hints, I appreciate all the > fast > responds. The tools in my "Access-IBM" application had the registry > backed up and I was able to restore to working order just fine ... > > > -- > beckp > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > beckp's Profile: http://forums.techarena.in/member.php?userid=30383 > View this thread: http://forums.techarena.in/showthread.php?t=812056 > > http://forums.techarena.in |
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