Vista - Network and internet

A friend asked me to help, but as I'm an avid XP fan and haven't gone over
to Vista, I've no idea so I'm hoping someone here can help.

Vista Home Premium (IIRC) and she can't get on the internet. I had a look
and it seems that there's a choice of network, ie, Local Only or Local and
Internet. Her's is stuck on Local Only and shows a red X between the diagram
of a router and the globe. We have no idea how to change it to allow
internet, but hopefully someone here does?

Thanks,

Pete

Control Panel has options..
"Pete Zahut" <dont@newsgroup> wrote in message
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Hi,

What type of network?
Was it working before?
Did she update nic drivers?
Any other updates?

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
"Pete Zahut" <dont@newsgroup> wrote in message
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Bill Walsh wrote:Ah, right, I'll have a look in there Bill, thanks.

Rick Rogers wrote:Hi Rick,

She's at work at the moment so I can't ask her but here's what I can tell
you:
It's a Sony Viao laptop and is the only computer in the house. She wants to
use it wirelessly to get on the internet. However, whether we try an
ethernet cable directly into the router or try wireless, we can't get it to
change from "Local Only" to "Local and Internet".
Yes. It's about 18 months old and has been working well until a recent
change of ISP (from ADSL broadband to cable broadband. Cable modem is
connected by ethernet cable to the WAN connection of a Netgear wireless
router.

At this point it I should perhaps tell you that I took my laptop to her
house and it connects and gets on the internet without any problems
whatsoever, so there's no problem with the ISP-side of things. The internet
"is there" and can be used on my XP-based machine. I also brought her laptop
to my house and could not connect to the internet, still having the "Local
Only" problem as opposed to "Local and Internet".
I can definitely say that it would never occur to her to update nic drivers
and she wouldn't know how to do it anyway.
I don't know, but would assume normal Windows updates are done
automatically.

Thanks for your help Rick.

Pete

Pete Zahut wrote:Sorry to reply to my own post but I should have also said that I actually
*did* get it working at one point but (a) I tried so many things that I
can't remember what I did to get it working, and (b) on rebooting, it was
back to not working again (

Pete

Hi Pete,

I would open an elevated command prompt (right click CMD and choose 'run as
administrator', and then run the following commands (allow each to complete
and return to the prompt before doing the next one):

ipconfig /release
ipconfig /flushdns
ipconfig /renew

Then close the prompt (exit) and retry the connection.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
"Pete Zahut" <dont@newsgroup> wrote in message
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Rick Rogers wrote:OK Rick, I'll do that next time I go round to see her and report back what
happens. Thanks again my friend.

Well Rick, I have now tried that and unfortunately, it didn't work (

Any other ideas my friend?

Pete

"Rick Rogers" <rick@newsgroup> wrote in message
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Hi Pete,

From her system at the same elevated command prompt, run:

ipconfig /all

Copy and paste the Windows IP Configuration and Ethernet Adapter Local Area
Connection results into a reply. To do that, right click the command window
top border and click Edit/Mark. You can then left click and drag over those
sections to highlight them and hit <enter> to copy. You can then paste it.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
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