hey i have a dell laptop i recently caught a virus that kept taking me to start up and never show...
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hey i have a dell laptop i recently caught a virus that kept taking me to start up and never show any icon i try to restore it to a earlier date that work but it didn't work...so my teacher lend me his windows xp cd to reinstall everything the problem is when i use the cd everything work fined except that when i try connecting to the internet i couldn't find the local area connection. i try creating a new connection but when i tried still the local area connection icon didn't appear. i forgot to mention i got my laptop around 2005 it was my first computer and when i got it never came with a windows xp disk that why i used my teacher...when i had it was more updated then the cd my computer originally came with windows xp professional version 2002 service pack 3 genuine intel(r) cpu t2300 @1.66ghz 1.00 gb of ram but since i use his cd the computer went down graded to a service pack 2...but anyways can some tell me how can i get local area connection to appear again