Finally, a working laptop
 

For the past several months my laptop has not had a working WiFi. Had several friends look at it, all IT guys, no luck. I used to do IT for a living, I couldn't figure it out. Even Tommy logged in to my computer and look around, no luck. We finally decided to back up the computer and format. I started that yesterday. This morning I formated the drive and reloaded the operating system. 13 hours to do the backup. 2 hours to format and load Windows. Then 9 hours of updates. Ya, 9 hours. Nearly 150 updates were needed. And more reboots then I care to count. But with 2 full days of dealing with this, the laptop is working again.

I have installed just about all my programs. Not that I had a lot on this computer. Firefox, AVG, and my HP tuners. Installed drivers, and all is working. Happy me. This means I can take the laptop to the hotel tomorrow and it will work. Darn hotel don't have cat5, only WiFi. :PE

well damn maybe i should send you my laptop and let you fix its non working wifi

WOW thats alot of updates!!!! What was the install disc? XP without any Service Packs?

Format fixes everything.

idk anything about computers....

It's vista home premium. The computers not even that old. Guess when you program like Microsoft, you need a lot of updates to fix it.

i remember when hotels had hookers in every room

okay so who wants to fix mine..ill send it to ya and pay...needs the wifi fixed and i have a vongo tray application issue?? and the disc drive doesnt like to work all the time

Just put in the recovery disk and start over. That's all I did.

what the hell is a recovery disk lol