lost wireless connection and icon

firbyfred

Help my son's have been messing with my wife's Asus Eee900 laptop, it won't connect to the wireless network, it has never been a problem before, there is no icon in the bottom right hand corner, nothing in the network connections, not sure what to do next.
The system restore is turned off and I can't turn it on it won't let me, is this normal in these laptops?
it is running xp home.

wacko911

Dont have one of these, but try Fn + F2 (usually Fn is blue on the bottom right of the keyboard), or else look for a wifi switch somewhere.

moneymass

Trawl through msconfig and services.msc for networking / wireless related services to see if they've been altered/stopped and restart them.

start -> run
msconfig

same for
services.msc

Must be administrator account to accesss these.

firbyfred

thanks, i tried msconfig one first but they were all ticked, then tried fn +f2 and that brought it back on.
thanks again

firbyfred

now that I have got the connection back is there any reason why I can't get the system restore function to work, or does it not work on these type of laptops

wacko911

Meant the Fn key is on the left of the keyboard, but glad you found it.

System restore would not have fixed your problem.

If you right click on 'My Computer' and then properties and click on the system restore tab, see if it's been disabled. System restore uses up a fair bit of hard-drive space and those EEE pc are low on space so may be disable by default.