hi all recently bought a new laptop, set it up to use the adsl line at home along with my old desktop and all was good took it to work and set it up to connect to the net via the lan network and all was good tried to set up a network at home between the the laptop and desktop and blew everything on the laptop... the network wizard set up a "1394 connection" and a "local area connection" in the "lan or high speed internet" section of network connections i want to delete both as i think they are screwing up my attempts at resetting up my home adsl connection in the broadband section however xp will only allow me to disable them, the delete option is greyed out... how can i get rid of them? eric e network newbie system restore hasn't worked once on this new laptop, makes lots of restore points but after every restore attempt it says "no changes made, cannot be restored"

Those are network connection devices, hardware on your system. If you disable or REMOVE them you can't network w/ anything. It's hard to tell what's going on w/o any kind of info other than "blew everything on the laptop". Sounds like a config problem. Post back w/ a better description of what how where why etc.

thanks toad went to look at all in more detail so i could get back to you and noticed that the connection had "firewalled", next to it perhaps after installing the home network the xp firewall is enabled automatically? anyway, set the connection up again and this time unchecked the firewall option and now i can connect to the net thanks for prompting me to look at it all again closer eric e

Yes, whenever you run the home networking wizard, the xp firewall gets re-enabled (irritating). Also on the initial run, xp shares a folder with write access (allowing the spread of viruses like nimda). I don't intend to start a flamewar, but talk about untrustworthy computing.