My cousin came to stay for a day, and they brought their laptop to let me make a Sims2 family in their town. That's all and good but i was going through the CP to help speed her PC up by disabling some load at startup programs, that worked fine, but then i decided it would be cool to change the name of the PC, and she agreed, to something more custom. That also was done with no issues..... until she got home and tried to connect to the internet. She uses WiFi, which i know nothing about, and i believe the reason she cannot get it to connect is because i changed the name of the PC. I Need to know if this is true and if so how i can fix it. I Don't have hands-on the PC or Router, and i don't know the Router brand at the moment, but i am hoping for some help anyway. PC is an HP Laptop running Vista32. Any help is appreciated... especially swift help. (She is a teenage girl so everything is a major event) Thanks --EDIT-- I Forgot to add that we don't remember the name that it was previously. Any way to find out?
I Don't have access to it and she doesn't know enough about PCs to keep from messing it up worse. I Think if their is some way to find out the previous name and change it back then it should work fine. That's my hope anyway. (I Know how to change it, just not how to find the old name)
Might have been something you shut off in the startup menus that is keeping it from connecting, only other suggestion is have the other person reset their router or clear it all together and make a "new" connection. I've monkeyed with my router changing small things like the network name or turning something off/on and after I changed the settings and saved bam I've lost connection because I didn't change things in the computer to match what I changed in the router and with me not knowing much about this laptop to figure it out I just basically start over and reset the router back to factory specs and make a new connection that included what changes I wanted to make and then I leave it alone.
