Hello,
My brother in law was having some problems with his Vista (32) Laptop in which it needed some routine maintenance which I had realised hadn't occured since he bought it (some 2 years ago). Vista was going slow (as usual) and he said it was becoming a pain and he was going to buy a new one.
Anyways cutting a long story short, I installed Ccleaner and cleaned up the computer, took away some programs which he didn't need (he kept having a norton 360 thing which had expired and some other things on there.) The computer now is alot more responsive and boots up in a respectable (for vista) time and so he is happy.
HOWEVER...
Before my cleanup he had no real issues connecting to the internet, just the usual ones with vista where you have to reset the router from time to time. Now I try to connect wirelessly to his network and it seems to connect, but only locally. No amount of resetting the router and rebooting the computer will solve this issue. It is strange because my XP laptop is connecting fine.
It must be a Vista problem that has caused the issue, I think I may have changed some settings with my initial tinkering.
Anyone have any Ideas?
Dave
My brother in law was having some problems with his Vista (32) Laptop in which it needed some routine maintenance which I had realised hadn't occured since he bought it (some 2 years ago). Vista was going slow (as usual) and he said it was becoming a pain and he was going to buy a new one.
Anyways cutting a long story short, I installed Ccleaner and cleaned up the computer, took away some programs which he didn't need (he kept having a norton 360 thing which had expired and some other things on there.) The computer now is alot more responsive and boots up in a respectable (for vista) time and so he is happy.
HOWEVER...
Before my cleanup he had no real issues connecting to the internet, just the usual ones with vista where you have to reset the router from time to time. Now I try to connect wirelessly to his network and it seems to connect, but only locally. No amount of resetting the router and rebooting the computer will solve this issue. It is strange because my XP laptop is connecting fine.
It must be a Vista problem that has caused the issue, I think I may have changed some settings with my initial tinkering.
Anyone have any Ideas?
Dave