Missing Network Connections items

[BeachGuy]

Something has gotten corrupted in my network connection services. When I
click on Control Panel>>Network Connections, I am missing Local Area
Connection, Wifi Connection and New Connection and Network Setup Wizards. I
also no longer see the LAN & Wifi icons in the tray, so I am unable to get
to Local Area and Wifi Connection Properties dialogs and I can't connect to
available wifi networks.

Any idea how to get these items back so I can access them?

Are there any back to services I can access to get wifi connected and
restore the missing icons?

I have a Lenovo Z60t laptop running WinXP Pro.

I sure appreciate your help, BeachGuy

 

[LD5SZRA]

Have you got your Windows XP CD with you. If so, you can insert
it in the drive and wait until you get its MENU system Then Go to
PERFORM ADDITIONAL TASKS. On the next screen you need second Item
called "Setup Home or Small Office Network" This should install
all the necessary files for you.

You don't need to boot up your system to do this but when the
drivers are installed, you will be asked to do so.

hth


BeachGuy wrote:
>
> Something has gotten corrupted in my network connection services. When I
> click on Control Panel>>Network Connections, I am missing Local Area
> Connection, Wifi Connection and New Connection and Network Setup Wizards. I
> also no longer see the LAN & Wifi icons in the tray, so I am unable to get
> to Local Area and Wifi Connection Properties dialogs and I can't connect to
> available wifi networks.
>
> Any idea how to get these items back so I can access them?
>
> Are there any back to services I can access to get wifi connected and
> restore the missing icons?
>
> I have a Lenovo Z60t laptop running WinXP Pro.
>
> I sure appreciate your help, BeachGuy

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[Bernd]

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> Something has gotten corrupted in my network connection services. When I
> click on Control Panel>>Network Connections, I am missing Local Area
> Connection, Wifi Connection and New Connection and Network Setup Wizards. I
> also no longer see the LAN & Wifi icons in the tray, so I am unable to get
> to Local Area and Wifi Connection Properties dialogs and I can't connect to
> available wifi networks.
>
> Any idea how to get these items back so I can access them?
>
> Are there any back to services I can access to get wifi connected and
> restore the missing icons?
>
> I have a Lenovo Z60t laptop running WinXP Pro.
>
> I sure appreciate your help, BeachGuy
>
>
Look at "Method 1":

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/825826

Bernd

 

[BeachGuy]

kb/825826 Method 1 sure helped get my LAN & wifi connections to work again,
but only returned the wifi icon to the tray permanently. The LAN icon
appears only when the LAN cable is disconnected.



Right clicking the LAN icon only shows the Change Firewall Settings and the
Open Network Connections options -- not the Status or other options that
might let me get to the Local Area Connection Properties window. Also the
Network Connections window does not list the "LAN and High Speed Network
connections" category, so I'm unable to get to the Local Area Connection
Properties window this way either.



And now Device Mgr>>Network Adapters >> Delete an adapter just locks up when
I try to uninstall the LAN device.



Guess my system is majorly hosed! Other strange things are going on also,
in spite of the fact that I have NIS 2010 running, occasionally run
MalwareBytes and SpyBot, and always keep everything up to date.



Is there any way that I can restore my WinXP to a relatively stable state
and fix these problems?



Would a registry cleaner help?



Reload from scratch is such a painful process I'd rather not do unless this
is really the only option.



Appreciate your help!