registry issue

[unfaithfulsfan]

Hey everyone. Sorry I've been away for so long. Had another surgery on my leg and was in and out of the hospital for several months. Hope everyone is well. I've just about gotten myself straightened out

So here's my latest conundrum. I've got on my bench a Dell Inspiron 8600 running XP with a True Mobile 1100 wireless card that won't connect to my wireless network. It sees it but it gives me a "Wireless Network Connection Error 5" which basically says "refresh the network list and try again"

I don't know if this is a driver issue or not. The customer says "it used to work". The only driver I can find for that card is for W2K. So in desperation, I decided to restore back to a point where she said it worked and before all the malware but, guess what! THere's no restore points and (it gets better) there's no System Volume Information folder. I even pulled the drive and connected up to my computer and it ain't there.

I'd deeply appreciate some advice! Thanks
Jack

[unfaithfulsfan]

I guess I SHOULD addm my question is does anyone know how I can restore the registry to an earlier point with no system volume information folder? BTW, the runs like a dream on the net via ethernet



Jack

[Neptune24]

Not sure how to restore a registry but C Cleaner or Glary Utilities might work and for the drivers I have something called device doctor, which might help and all mentioned software is free.

Hope this helps and if not now, in the future

Neptune24

[unfaithfulsfan]

Thanks for the response. After seemingly endless research I determined that the wireless card is incompatible with that model laptop. I never was able to restore the registry but got the PC cleaned up and customer was happy with just ethernet connectivity since it's only her 11 year old grandson that's going to be using it.

Jack