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in windows xp you can click on the repair button to repair a connection. how do you do this in vista? i have looked for 20 minutes or so and can't find anything. nothing i tried either worked. i installed a new cable modem/router combined and now have a new lan ip type stuff. it won't get the new ip etc, it is keeping the old one. so how can i repair?

Try using Diagnose. It's in the context menu (right-click) of the connection icon in your tray, or look in the Network Center for it.
"AMDX2" wrote in message

in windows xp you can click on the repair button to repair a connection. how do you do this in vista? i have looked for 20 minutes or so and can't find anything. nothing i tried either worked. i installed a new cable modem/router combined and now have a new lan ip type stuff. it won't get the new ip etc, it is keeping the old one. so how can i repair?

I have and it doesn't fix anything. It just sits there doing nothing except scrolling the bar left to right. When it does something all it does is tell me I can only connect to the local lan. re3booting pc also doesn't fix it. disable then re enable the network connection or even creating a new one doesn't do anything. and each time it's still getting the other routers ip, not the new one.
"NeoDude0" wrote in message

Try using Diagnose. It's in the context menu (right-click) of the connection icon in your tray, or look in the Network Center for it.
"AMDX2" wrote in message in windows xp you can click on the repair button to repair a connection. how do you do this in vista? i have looked for 20 minutes or so and can't find anything. nothing i tried either worked. i installed a new cable modem/router combined and now have a new lan ip type stuff. it won't get the new ip etc, it is keeping the old one. so how can i repair?

At a cmd prompt try
ipconfig /release
then
ipconfig /renew
-- Kerry MS-MVP Windows - Shell/User
AMDX2 wrote:

I have and it doesn't fix anything. It just sits there doing nothing except scrolling the bar left to right. When it does something all it does is tell me I can only connect to the local lan. re3booting pc also doesn't fix it. disable then re enable the network connection or even creating a new one doesn't do anything. and each time it's still getting the other routers ip, not the new one.
"NeoDude0" wrote in message Try using Diagnose. It's in the context menu (right-click) of the connection icon in your tray, or look in the Network Center for it.
"AMDX2" wrote in message in windows xp you can click on the repair button to repair a connection. how do you do this in vista? i have looked for 20 minutes or so and can't find anything. nothing i tried either worked. i installed a new cable modem/router combined and now have a new lan ip type stuff. it won't get the new ip etc, it is keeping the old one. so how can i repair?

Oh yeah, duh. Ha, I knew that, but way far back in my mind lol. I'll try it.
"Kerry Brown" wrote in message

At a cmd prompt try
ipconfig /release
then
ipconfig /renew
-- Kerry MS-MVP Windows - Shell/User
AMDX2 wrote: I have and it doesn't fix anything. It just sits there doing nothing except scrolling the bar left to right. When it does something all it does is tell me I can only connect to the local lan. re3booting pc also doesn't fix it. disable then re enable the network connection or even creating a new one doesn't do anything. and each time it's still getting the other routers ip, not the new one.
"NeoDude0" wrote in message Try using Diagnose. It's in the context menu (right-click) of the connection icon in your tray, or look in the Network Center for it.
"AMDX2" wrote in message in windows xp you can click on the repair button to repair a connection. how do you do this in vista? i have looked for 20 minutes or so and can't find anything. nothing i tried either worked. i installed a new cable modem/router combined and now have a new lan ip type stuff. it won't get the new ip etc, it is keeping the old one. so how can i repair?

That may not fix it. Don't know about Vista but sometimes in XP you have to do a reboot after ipconfig /release before it will connect to a different DHCP server.
-- Kerry MS-MVP Windows - Shell/User
AMDX2 wrote:

Oh yeah, duh. Ha, I knew that, but way far back in my mind lol. I'll try it.
"Kerry Brown" wrote in message At a cmd prompt try
ipconfig /release
then
ipconfig /renew
-- Kerry MS-MVP Windows - Shell/User
AMDX2 wrote: I have and it doesn't fix anything. It just sits there doing nothing except scrolling the bar left to right. When it does something all it does is tell me I can only connect to the local lan. re3booting pc also doesn't fix it. disable then re enable the network connection or even creating a new one doesn't do anything. and each time it's still getting the other routers ip, not the new one.
"NeoDude0" wrote in message Try using Diagnose. It's in the context menu (right-click) of the connection icon in your tray, or look in the Network Center for it.
"AMDX2" wrote in message in windows xp you can click on the repair button to repair a connection. how do you do this in vista? i have looked for 20 minutes or so and can't find anything. nothing i tried either worked. i installed a new cable modem/router combined and now have a new lan ip type stuff. it won't get the new ip etc, it is keeping the old one. so how can i repair?

True. Well for some reason vista fixed itself eventually. it said it couldn't connect and then i clicked a button in that window and finally it connected. so maybe it was a dhcp lease time timemout thing that it had to wait for the dhcp to loose its lease.
"Kerry Brown" wrote in message

That may not fix it. Don't know about Vista but sometimes in XP you have to do a reboot after ipconfig /release before it will connect to a different DHCP server.
-- Kerry MS-MVP Windows - Shell/User
AMDX2 wrote: Oh yeah, duh. Ha, I knew that, but way far back in my mind lol. I'll try it.
"Kerry Brown" wrote in message At a cmd prompt try
ipconfig /release
then
ipconfig /renew
-- Kerry MS-MVP Windows - Shell/User
AMDX2 wrote: I have and it doesn't fix anything. It just sits there doing nothing except scrolling the bar left to right. When it does something all it does is tell me I can only connect to the local lan. re3booting pc also doesn't fix it. disable then re enable the network connection or even creating a new one doesn't do anything. and each time it's still getting the other routers ip, not the new one.
"NeoDude0" wrote in message Try using Diagnose. It's in the context menu (right-click) of the connection icon in your tray, or look in the Network Center for it.
"AMDX2" wrote in message in windows xp you can click on the repair button to repair a connection. how do you do this in vista? i have looked for 20 minutes or so and can't find anything. nothing i tried either worked. i installed a new cable modem/router combined and now have a new lan ip type stuff. it won't get the new ip etc, it is keeping the old one. so how can i repair?