Help - IP address in Windows XP 31 July 2006 at 7:38PM in Techie Stuff 8 replies 412 views

Frugal_Fox

Okay - firstly I am not at all Technical - and I'm posting this on behalf of my OH who....

Whilst trying to dial into our wireless router (or however 'you' get there) to link his laptop to my laptop has changed the IP address on his pc using a very unhelpful wizzard!

How can he change it back so that he can dial into our Belkin router and connect up??

Any help gratefully received.

FF

wonderfullife_2

Hi
To get to your router stats page
http://192.168.2.1

Frugal_Fox

Hi,

he's managed to get to that page - however we aren't sure how we can change it permanently on his pc.

Browntoa

use system restore to roll the PC back to before he started playing

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/helpandsupport/learnmore/systemrestore.mspx

Frugal_Fox

Will this wipe all of the data on his laptop?

Browntoa

no, will roll it back to a date/time point just before the change, nothing gets lost

Frugal_Fox

Okay - he's doing this now!

Thank you very much

Just out of interest - is there a way that his laptop and my laptop can be 'connected' remotely using our wireless router?

Frugal_Fox

I could be converting him to the powers of MSE!!!

Frugal_Fox

He's now connected up. He says thank you very much!

I say - many many thanks Browntoa, as he's been getting more and more cross over the last hour over this!

FF