No LAN - disappeared!

Hi

I've had my laptop 6 months using Vista Home Basic and have connected
through a wired LAN connection everyday. This week, it didn't automatically
connect and when I went to the "Network and sharing centre", selected "Full
map" and selected "Local area network", it doesn't show anything at all. It's
as if the connection (or the icon) has just disapeared.

I'm not very technically minded, but was advised by Acer (who I bought the
laptop from) to "Restore factory settings", but I have loads of programs,
pictures and music and am worried I will loose it all or will have to re-load
everything (which ideally I don't want to do).

I was also advised so look at what updates windows has done, I did and found
that the date when it was last updated is about the same time I had these
problems. I went and uninstalled thsee updates and re-started the laptop but
still no LAN.

Any help would be appreciated - please bear in mind though that I'm not very
technical.

Thanks

Click Start, and type:
devmgmt.msc
Open the Properties of your internet connection device, and use the Action
menu to 'uninstall", (do Not check the 'delete driver' option) then restart
Windows to find it again automatically. This should renew your connection.
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"Fernando Vaz" wrote:

> Hi
>
> I've had my laptop 6 months using Vista Home Basic and have connected
> through a wired LAN connection everyday. This week, it didn't automatically
> connect and when I went to the "Network and sharing centre", selected "Full
> map" and selected "Local area network", it doesn't show anything at all. It's
> as if the connection (or the icon) has just disapeared.
>
> I'm not very technically minded, but was advised by Acer (who I bought the
> laptop from) to "Restore factory settings", but I have loads of programs,
> pictures and music and am worried I will loose it all or will have to re-load
> everything (which ideally I don't want to do).
>
> I was also advised so look at what updates windows has done, I did and found
> that the date when it was last updated is about the same time I had these
> problems. I went and uninstalled thsee updates and re-started the laptop but
> still no LAN.
>
> Any help would be appreciated - please bear in mind though that I'm not very
> technical.
>
> Thanks
>