Trust me to go meddling with things I don’t understand. I have ADSL internet and two computers (a desktop PC running XP and a laptop running 98SE) hooked up using two LAN cards (one on the motherboard for the internet and a seperate one to hook up to the laptop). Until now the network was fine, although for some reason, even though windows XP can theoratically share a single internet connection over the network, the only webpage viewable on the laptop was google. (???)
Anyway, a friend of mine suggested that to remedy this minor irritation I install WinGate, which he uses - with the same ISP and ADSL package - to share the internet connection between his windows 2000 desktop and his girlfriend’s laptop. Does this make any sense so far?
The result of installing WinGate was that the computers can no longer establish a link bewteen each other. Further, I have since uninstalled WinGate but the problem remains. To make matters worse I can’t use the ‘add new network connection’ wizard to remake the connection from scratch (it gives up half way through), and - even worse - I can’t even delete the existing (non-functioning) connection. It just asks me if I’m sure, then when I press Okay it says 'this connection cannot be deleted."
Does anyone have any idea what the problem could be or how to fix it?