HELP! I have a major IP Problem!

[James Cole]

I have a laptop. At work it has an static IP address. I
took it home one weekend in January and set up a
connection for my modem and local ISP. I had no problem
getting to the Net. I took it back to work on Monday and
plugged it into the network. I said it could reach any
network devices. I checked my IP address and it was the
same as before. I tried an ipconfig in the CP and just
got "WIndows IP Configuration" even though the GUI showed
the corrected info. Luckily, (I thought at the time) I
had made a system restore point before I set up the
connection with my ISP. I did a system restore to that
point and things were fine for the moment.
Since January I have had my laptop do the same thing
about 10 times and I always have to go back to that same
restore point. Which causes me to lose software I
installed.

I tried changing the Connections settings on the Internet
Options menu, but that doesn't seem to be the problem. It
baffles me that I get nothing when I do an ipconfig.

What is going on here? And how can I fix this from
happening again? I thought that XP would have had no
problems with the 2 connections, but I was wrong.

Thanks for any help.

[Robert L [MS-MVP]]

if your computer DHCP, should not have this problem. If you use static ip,
try use netsh.exe to switch the settings.

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"James Cole" > wrote in message
...
> I have a laptop. At work it has an static IP address. I
> took it home one weekend in January and set up a
> connection for my modem and local ISP. I had no problem
> getting to the Net. I took it back to work on Monday and
> plugged it into the network. I said it could reach any
> network devices. I checked my IP address and it was the
> same as before. I tried an ipconfig in the CP and just
> got "WIndows IP Configuration" even though the GUI showed
> the corrected info. Luckily, (I thought at the time) I
> had made a system restore point before I set up the
> connection with my ISP. I did a system restore to that
> point and things were fine for the moment.
> Since January I have had my laptop do the same thing
> about 10 times and I always have to go back to that same
> restore point. Which causes me to lose software I
> installed.
>
> I tried changing the Connections settings on the Internet
> Options menu, but that doesn't seem to be the problem. It
> baffles me that I get nothing when I do an ipconfig.
>
> What is going on here? And how can I fix this from
> happening again? I thought that XP would have had no
> problems with the 2 connections, but I was wrong.
>
> Thanks for any help.