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[MonkeyFiend]

ok to get some idea of why t'internet is broked, we need some info...

1. What make is your wireless router?
2. on your computer, if you click start>run>type 'cmd' and press ok, then in the black screen type 'ipconfig' what is your IP address listed as?
3. Are you using any 3rd party programs to handle wirless e.g. netgear wireless utility or is it done through windows?

From this we can tell whether the computer is actually connecting to the wireless router....

4. click start>control panel>network connections>look for network connections* and open it (if you can't see it, select 'switch to classic view' on the left first. Next right-click on your wireless network adapter and select properties, then the wireless networks tab. Is your connection in the preferred connections list? if so click on it and select properties... what is the network authentication and data encryption set to?

5. Because that was a nerdy post, I'll finish on a bad joke.. how do you get pikachu on a bus?.......................................................... you poke-him-on (apologies)

ta,

Monkey

[MonkeyFiend]

good old system restore - rarely much use.

At least we're getting some idea of what's gone wrong now.

The DHCP service has to run.. and yours failed to start due to a dependent service failing, so we need to find what the dependent service is (from the 1. part of my previous post)

I'd guess that an LSP (layered service provider) has been removed from the system but is still being called by the dhcp service which fails as a result. The LSP itself may be legitimate (norton, aviva, zone alarm) or it may be part of virus/spyware etc.,

You can download lspfix (google it) or download from the handy http://sneakymonkeys.com/lspfix.exe mirror

If you run that tool, it will tell you what LSP's you have hooked into your system (don't remove any yet!) - can you post back with what you have?

thx.