Missing Connections

[anim8]

When I reboot all my Internet connections have disappeared and I have to restore my drive to get them back.

What is causing this?

Can I make a backup of them?

 

[Silent_Bob]

there is something very wrong there, check for virus's, normally i would just reload windows. But hey, thats just me

 

[anim8]

I've Norton Anti-virus running - no problems

 

[anim8]

It's back

My problem is back...I reboot and all my connections are gone.

How can I backup my connections?

Help Please!

 

[JoeBlack]

not under a different user perhaps?

 

[anim8]

nope - only 1 user

 

[mas]

thats really strange, so like weneva u reboot and you click on start--> connect to --> show all internet connections.

theres nothing there?
Is that what you mean?
ADSL, Dial up?

 

[anim8]

That's exactly what happens - but not all the time

All my connections gone! ADSL, Dialup, even Bluetooth!

I've checked my startup files and there's nothing strange there.

If I restore to just before I booted - It comes back, so it must be something in startup

 

[Moederloos]

Sounds like an over eager XP installation. If I remember back, there was some "roll back" feature (System restore?).

I do not use Windows, so I cannot look it up - but maybe someone will know what I am talking about.

("System restore check point" comes to mind as well?)

 

[Luke7777]

Maybe this or this will help ?

 

[anim8]

Thanks I'll give them a try next time it does it

 

[Tim182]

my usual advice: format!

also partitionate with c for windows alone, create own oem windows cd with your own setting and no more problems! just format and nothing much (besides few settings) will belost.

 

[bees]

Format.

Had same problem with a client's PC. Tried ALL possible options. Nothing worked. Spent almost 3 hours trying to fix it. Even tried doing a repair install. Still nothing.

Flipping XP.