Windows 7 Limited Access Only When Connecting to my Phone

scoostraw

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Hello,

I connect to the internet by tethering my android phone to my netbook (Toshiba NB505 running Windows 7 Starter). This has worked well for a very long time.

The other day I went to play my morning crossword and received an error stating that xw_control.xml could not be found. I googled and discovered that this file may be flash related. I knew that my flash was downlevel so I downloaded the latest flash.

After that I could no longer connect to my phone. When I open the network and sharing center it is spinning its wheels on "Identifying".

I tried shutting down, did a battery pull on the phone, and did a system restore to a date prior to these events. No help. I also tried to connect to a public wifi network with the same limited access.

I really need some guideance please. Thank you!
 
Solution
Change it to Automatic Startup, and start that puppy.. DHCP client is responsible for obtaining your IP address from your Router (Phone in this case). Without it running you'll never get connected.
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Now the important question is how did your DHCP client get set to disabled, it doesn't just happen on its own... I would still run a full scan with your Antivirus and Malwarebytes
 
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That was going to be my very next question - how in the world would something like that get changed. I am ashamed to admit that my antivirus is not current... How do I run malwarebytes?
 
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Malwarebytes found 3 items. I removed them and rebooted.

When in the process of troubleshooting this, I disabled my firewall. I received an error message when I did so, but apparently it did turn it off. Now when I click on "Use recommended settings" I receive "Windows firewall can't change some of your settings. Error code 0x8007042c."

Any ideas on this...??
 
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Google is my friend. I resolved this. My "base filtering engine" was also disabled. Enabled that and my firewall seems ok now..
 
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One last thing. Josephur and patcooke - lunch is on me. Name your poison.

Really appreciated the help guys.
 
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Thanks. I just ran this. It didn't say it found and/or changed anything, but I rebooted after it finished. I'm guessing that's all there is to it?
 
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Correct, that is all there is to it! Hope your system is running better
 
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I just discovered that I have no sound. "This computer cannot play audio because the Windows Audio Service is not enabled. Would you like to enable Windows Audio Service?". When I click YES I get "No audio devices are installed."
 
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Did you go to services and set Windows Audio Service to Automatic and start it? Man something did a number on your system...
 
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Windows Audio was enabled, but Windows Audio Endpoint Builder was not. I enabled that and my sound is back.

Yes I'd really like to know what exactly got into my system...
 
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