Laptop Network Dead

Running normal stuff on Win XP Pro laptop.
Laptop connected via WiFi and Cat 5.
All good except that CPU was at 000%.
Process Explorer showed svchost pulling all remaining CPU so I killed it.
Big mistake.

Tried to access LAN or Internet was a no go so I booted.
Tried to access LAN of Internet again and still no go.

Tried to repair network and still no go.

Seems that just killing svchost wiped out drivers or setting or whatever.

Firewall was on and still is.
I have three virus etc things that check browsers although I was not
running a browser at the time of problem.
I have two virus scanners that I run manually and they show no problems
with viruses before or after problem.

What to do ?
Other than a restore.
My CD broke and I did not make a bootable USB.

How to fix network ?

Step by step please.

XPerience wrote:
Running normal stuff on Win XP Pro laptop.
Laptop connected via WiFi and Cat 5.
All good except that CPU was at 000%.
Process Explorer showed svchost pulling all remaining CPU so I killed it.
Big mistake.

Tried to access LAN or Internet was a no go so I booted.
Tried to access LAN of Internet again and still no go.

Tried to repair network and still no go.

Seems that just killing svchost wiped out drivers or setting or whatever.

Firewall was on and still is.
I have three virus etc things that check browsers although I was not
running a browser at the time of problem.
I have two virus scanners that I run manually and they show no problems
with viruses before or after problem.

What to do ?
Other than a restore.
My CD broke and I did not make a bootable USB.

How to fix network ?

Step by step please.



Do you have a System Restore point ?

Go back in time a day, to the state of yesterday.

My assumption is, that something in the registry got
changed, but I really don't understand how that could
happen. About the worst that should happen by clubbing
baby seals like that, is the OS could shut down, and it
should still be a clean shutdown.

Now, if you'd just turned off the power on the laptop,
or pulled the battery while it was running, that would
be a different matter.

*******

The nice thing about WinXP, is it was supposed to take one
snapshot per day, which should be capturing the registry.
A restore point also gets set, if you install a driver.
Look through the "calendar" for a point in time, just
before you got busy with your club. The System Restore
feature excels, for short trips back in time, so going
back a day or two is the perfect usage case for it.
Going backwards three weeks, not so much.

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/.../bb457025.aspx

*******

I don't really know if it's possible to make a WinXP USB
installer. The Windows 7 USB maker probably wouldn't work for
that. Maybe one of the others (Unetbootin, Rufus???) might
do it. With the tools of that sort, you want proof first
they have an exact entry for "WinXP Installer CD", so you
know they have a working solution. As in some cases, the
developer has to "do something special" for some of the
supported items in the list. And you can't just take any
old CD, and make bootable USB out of it.

I wouldn't even try the hard drive "dual partition" WinXP
technique, because you need a floppy drive for that, and
not many computers have a floppy when you need it. In that
method, the first partition is FAT32 and empty, the second
partition is FAT32 and has a copy of the i386 folder from the
CD. The floppy diskette used, would be an MSDOS boot floppy
of sufficiently modern construction, to be able to read
the D: partition with i386 on it. That's how I did my first
WinXP install.

Paul

Paul wrote:
Maybe one of the others (Unetbootin, Rufus???) might
do it. With the tools of that sort, you want proof first
they have an exact entry for "WinXP Installer CD",

Rufus page sez:

(2) Non exhaustive list of ISOs Rufus is known to work with ...
Windows XP (SP2+), Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008, Windows 7,
Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Windows Server 2012, Windows 10, Windows Server
2016, ...

(but I have a TinyXP .iso and CD that I can't put on USB with anything)

--
Mike Easter

On 6/12/2017 8:19 AM, XPerience wrote:
Running normal stuff on Win XP Pro laptop.
Laptop connected via WiFi and Cat 5.
All good except that CPU was at 000%.

?????000%???
Does "all good" mean that you could access the web?

Process Explorer showed svchost pulling all remaining CPU so I killed it.
Big mistake.

Tried to access LAN or Internet was a no go so I booted.
Tried to access LAN of Internet again and still no go.

Tried to repair network and still no go.

Are we to assume that you rebooted your router/access point/modem?

Seems that just killing svchost wiped out drivers or setting or whatever.

Firewall was on and still is.
I have three virus etc things that check browsers although I was not
running a browser at the time of problem.
I have two virus scanners that I run manually and they show no problems
with viruses before or after problem.

What to do ?
Other than a restore.
My CD broke and I did not make a bootable USB.

How to fix network ?

Step by step please.

?????000%???

means CPU all used up and none available for other application.

Does "all good" mean that you could access the web?

I have both WiFi and Cat 5 connections.
WiFi goes to the Web and yes was working
Cat5 goes to my LAN and NAS and was working

After problem, BOTH stopped working even after boot.
All networking was down.

On Mon, 12 Jun 2017 08:19:12 -0700, XPerience
wrote:

Running normal stuff on Win XP Pro laptop.
Laptop connected via WiFi and Cat 5.
All good except that CPU was at 000%.
Process Explorer showed svchost pulling all remaining CPU so I killed it.
Big mistake.

Tried to access LAN or Internet was a no go so I booted.
Tried to access LAN of Internet again and still no go.

Tried to repair network and still no go.

Seems that just killing svchost wiped out drivers or setting or whatever.

Firewall was on and still is.
I have three virus etc things that check browsers although I was not
running a browser at the time of problem.
I have two virus scanners that I run manually and they show no problems
with viruses before or after problem.

What to do ?
Other than a restore.
My CD broke and I did not make a bootable USB.

How to fix network ?

Step by step please.


Try this

http://www.majorgeeks.com/files/deta...ck_xp_fix.html

Over half a million people have downloaded it. I know, more
people use Win 10 so it might not work. But at least it's
"reversible".
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