# End my hellish suffering? Gateway laptop wont connect **URL:** \ **Category:** NYSpeed Off Topic\ **Created:** [May 2, 2011, 3:49pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/end-my-hellish-suffering-gateway-laptop-wont-connect/211938 "2011-05-02T15:49:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Random\_Hero](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/random_hero/32/5235_2.png) [@Random\_Hero](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Random_Hero)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2011, 3:49pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/end-my-hellish-suffering-gateway-laptop-wont-connect/211938/1 "2011-05-02T15:49:20Z")
My girlfriend has a gateway computer that will not connect to our network. Its her laptop. I have Time Warner cable going into their modem, from their it goes to my net gear wireless router. My 360 runs off the router, and my laptop (Dell) /ipod can pickup the signal no problems. Her laptop connects to random networks that are no use (attwifi, the subway store across the road) It will not display a list of available networks, however. Her laptop had a ton of malware, viruses, whatever. I ran malwarebytes took a BUNCH of crap off it. Ideas? I’m trying everything I can from google, Wireless Zero Config, …idk what to do and she just keeps bitching! :fail: Neither firefox or IE works, when I try “Repair connection” I get “Can’t register with DNS”. I tried to turn off the firewall on Windows Security Center, but it isnt on…when I try to turn it on I get “Windows cannot start the Windows Firewall/Internet Connection Sharing (ICS) software” ---
**Author:** ![Jon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/3bc359/32.png) [@Jon](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Jon)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2011, 4:11pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/end-my-hellish-suffering-gateway-laptop-wont-connect/211938/2 "2011-05-02T16:11:10Z")
I’m willing to bet she doesnt think you are a hero.I would reinstall windows or restore it. ---
**Author:** ![Random\_Hero](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/random_hero/32/5235_2.png) [@Random\_Hero](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Random_Hero)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2011, 4:15pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/end-my-hellish-suffering-gateway-laptop-wont-connect/211938/3 "2011-05-02T16:15:43Z")
Trying a restore right now ---
**Author:** ![Spam16v](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/spam16v/32/5287_2.png) [@Spam16v](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Spam16v)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2011, 4:31pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/end-my-hellish-suffering-gateway-laptop-wont-connect/211938/4 "2011-05-02T16:31:38Z")
format that ish… ---
**Author:** ![FrankHam24](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a88e4f/32.png) [@FrankHam24](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/FrankHam24)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2011, 4:36pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/end-my-hellish-suffering-gateway-laptop-wont-connect/211938/5 "2011-05-02T16:36:52Z")
Yeah, if it had malware and stuff on it I’d just reinstall Windows. Start fresh, problem solved… ---
**Author:** ![97FormulaWS-6](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/97formulaws-6/32/7384_2.png) [@97FormulaWS-6](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/97FormulaWS-6)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2011, 5:14pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/end-my-hellish-suffering-gateway-laptop-wont-connect/211938/6 "2011-05-02T17:14:01Z")
Wipe it… if it’s that Fubar’d there’s not much other you can do. Grab what she needs (Pictures/files) and dump the rest. ---
**Author:** ![ProgRocker](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/progrocker/32/5434_2.png) [@ProgRocker](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/ProgRocker)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2011, 8:59am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/end-my-hellish-suffering-gateway-laptop-wont-connect/211938/7 "2011-05-03T08:59:25Z")
Normally I’m against uninstalling as the first “method” of fixing a problem. You could probably fix it yourself running various tools, and changing settings; but it’d would probably save more time reinstalling windows/ ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/uploads/speedlife/original/2X/b/b7170c8eddc0b95ece6b88172b2f416a08489a45.png) [@system](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/system)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2011, 9:12am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/end-my-hellish-suffering-gateway-laptop-wont-connect/211938/8 "2011-05-03T09:12:21Z")
On the reformat bandwagon. ---
**Author:** ![boardjnky4](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/96bed5/32.png) [@boardjnky4](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/boardjnky4)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2011, 9:16am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/end-my-hellish-suffering-gateway-laptop-wont-connect/211938/9 "2011-05-03T09:16:14Z")
> [@ProgRocker](#): > > Normally I’m against uninstalling as the first “method” of fixing a problem. You could probably fix it yourself running various tools, and changing settings; but it’d would probably save more time reinstalling windows/ yeah, time is the problem. it’s just so damn easy to reformat and install windows fresh. ---
**Author:** ![Jam](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/jam/32/7235_2.png) [@Jam](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Jam)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2011, 1:43pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/end-my-hellish-suffering-gateway-laptop-wont-connect/211938/10 "2011-05-03T13:43:30Z")
Reinstall the os, y0 ---
**Author:** ![OfficerK](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/4da419/32.png) [@OfficerK](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/OfficerK)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2011, 1:56pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/end-my-hellish-suffering-gateway-laptop-wont-connect/211938/11 "2011-05-03T13:56:18Z")
You may want to hit F8 to get into safe mode and reformat ---
**Author:** ![pirite](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/pirite/32/5308_2.png) [@pirite](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/pirite)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2011, 3:09pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/end-my-hellish-suffering-gateway-laptop-wont-connect/211938/12 "2011-05-03T15:09:43Z")
> [@ProgRocker](#): > > Normally I’m against uninstalling as the first “method” of fixing a problem. You could probably fix it yourself running various tools, and changing settings; but it’d would probably save more time reinstalling windows/ this is who i was waiting for to chime in.