Hello everyone,
This is by way of being a plea for advice, as my PC has gone belly up and there seems to be a reasonable degree of computer-savvyness on this board!
Basically, I've lost my wireless network connection. I recently installed Norton 360 on my machine, and, within a day or so, my wireless network connection had gone. Simply disappeared. Bizarrely, the various networks run by neighbours etc were still showing on the list of available networks, but the network I use (my flatmates AOL one) simply didn't show up anymore.
Assuming that this had something to do with the Norton firewall, I disabled that, to no effect. So I then fiddled with the Norton settings a bit (very technical, that last bit) and the network came back. Great, I thought. Unfortunately, once the machine had been restarted the network was gone again. So I replicated what I did last time, but no joy...
Anyway, I used my flatmates machine to scour the web for insight, and basically saw that many other Vista users had had a similar problem. So, I stripped Norton off the machine, and the network immediately reappeared!
Confident that this was sorted, I switched the machine off. Upon restarting, though, the network is once again nowhere to be seen. As a bizarre side effect, I can no longer run itunes, as Quicktime seems to have disappeared from my machine too!
So, here is my plea:
1) can anyone tell me what the bloody hell is going on?
2) can anyone tell me how to fix it?
Hope no-one minds a long-time lurker and only occasional poster popping up asking for help, but I really am stuck. Help me 2000ad messageboard, you're my only hope!
This is by way of being a plea for advice, as my PC has gone belly up and there seems to be a reasonable degree of computer-savvyness on this board!
Basically, I've lost my wireless network connection. I recently installed Norton 360 on my machine, and, within a day or so, my wireless network connection had gone. Simply disappeared. Bizarrely, the various networks run by neighbours etc were still showing on the list of available networks, but the network I use (my flatmates AOL one) simply didn't show up anymore.
Assuming that this had something to do with the Norton firewall, I disabled that, to no effect. So I then fiddled with the Norton settings a bit (very technical, that last bit) and the network came back. Great, I thought. Unfortunately, once the machine had been restarted the network was gone again. So I replicated what I did last time, but no joy...
Anyway, I used my flatmates machine to scour the web for insight, and basically saw that many other Vista users had had a similar problem. So, I stripped Norton off the machine, and the network immediately reappeared!
Confident that this was sorted, I switched the machine off. Upon restarting, though, the network is once again nowhere to be seen. As a bizarre side effect, I can no longer run itunes, as Quicktime seems to have disappeared from my machine too!
So, here is my plea:
1) can anyone tell me what the bloody hell is going on?
2) can anyone tell me how to fix it?
Hope no-one minds a long-time lurker and only occasional poster popping up asking for help, but I really am stuck. Help me 2000ad messageboard, you're my only hope!