This morning when I turned on my computer, my home wireless network was
showing up as "unidentified" with local access only. I tried connecting
to the router with an Ethernet cable but that connection, too, said
"local only."

The major change I have made to my computer since yesterday and today
was that I un-installed Symantec Anti Virus (it made my computer
unusably slow). I looked online and some threads have suggested that
this may have been the problem. I re-installed Symantec but the internet
did not come back. It keeps showing local only access / unidentified.
All other computers on this network are working absolutely fine.



Any ideas on what to do? I am quite desperate right now.. speed is more
important than data preservation. I tried System restore but
unfortunately I don't have any previous points saved.

Thanks so much!


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"sadiqhassan" <sadiqhassan.3h6h7d@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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>
> This morning when I turned on my computer, my home wireless network was
> showing up as "unidentified" with local access only. I tried connecting
> to the router with an Ethernet cable but that connection, too, said
> "local only."
>
> The major change I have made to my computer since yesterday and today
> was that I un-installed Symantec Anti Virus (it made my computer
> unusably slow). I looked online and some threads have suggested that
> this may have been the problem. I re-installed Symantec but the internet
> did not come back. It keeps showing local only access / unidentified.
> All other computers on this network are working absolutely fine.
>
> Any ideas on what to do? I am quite desperate right now.. speed is more
> important than data preservation. I tried System restore but
> unfortunately I don't have any previous points saved.
>
> Thanks so much!
>
>
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> sadiqhassan
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Exact same thing happened to me: wired network, Vista, Symantec AV .... I
ended up re-installing the the OS (not Vista this time!). However, in
hindsight, I'm wondering if somehow the NIC driver got uninstalled. I
realize its a stretch but check your Device Manager settings for Network
Adaptors and see if that is what happened.

Good luck with Vista ... I give up.


"sadiqhassan" <sadiqhassan.3h6h7d@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:sadiqhassan.3h6h7d@xxxxxx

>
> This morning when I turned on my computer, my home wireless network was
> showing up as "unidentified" with local access only. I tried connecting
> to the router with an Ethernet cable but that connection, too, said
> "local only."
>
> The major change I have made to my computer since yesterday and today
> was that I un-installed Symantec Anti Virus (it made my computer
> unusably slow). I looked online and some threads have suggested that
> this may have been the problem. I re-installed Symantec but the internet
> did not come back. It keeps showing local only access / unidentified.
> All other computers on this network are working absolutely fine.
>
> Any ideas on what to do? I am quite desperate right now.. speed is more
> important than data preservation. I tried System restore but
> unfortunately I don't have any previous points saved.
>
> Thanks so much!
>
>
> --
> sadiqhassan
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
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> View this thread:
> http://forums.techarena.in/windows-v...rk/1053488.htm
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