friends computer cannot conect to the internet through a wirless modem router think its an ie problem as i have got the router working fine at my house trouble is every man and his dog has been trying before me and the ie settings are a mess they seem to have xp upgrade over win 98 (i know clean install is always best but i dont want to reinstall all that so im looking for a quick fix. can i reinstall ie if its been done that way (ie xp update from win 98) they use laptops so dont really use this computer so dont worry if its slow etc ant quick way to reset all the broadband settings installed the pipex disc other problem is i have reset the router but i cant get on to 192.168.1.1 at her house but it does it fine at my house when i try at her house i get cannot connect to the internet

Please use punctuation and paragraphs when posting your problems. That is basically gibberish what you have posted here...

In device manager, uninstall and reinstall the network adapter drivers. Make sure you have the XP driver for the nic when you reinstall. Are you running SP2? XfX nForce 680i LT Quad Core 2.4Ghz OCZ SLI 2gB XfX GeForce 8600 GT

@SysLock its a friends computer but i think not as they dont seem to have much of a clue will try to uninstall the network adapter drivers @wombat its one in the morning here and was in a hurry sorry

You posted NA for everything. Guess the others here thought you have XP because that is the forum you posted in. In order to get good help you need to supply good information.

Further to Othehill comment above, I think you will find the following article appropriate for your reading for future posting at Computing.net Forums. How To Determine System Credentials in Windows i_Xp/VistaUser

I posted n/a because its a friends computer and i dont know the specs If it was my own i had the problem on i would have once again sorry for the first post but it was late and i was in a hurry.. so any more ideas