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Reinstalled Windows 7 and lost connection - help!
Reinstalled Windows 7 and now I can't establish an internet connection.
I don't mean to sound as though I am trying to wriggle out of starting over, but before I proceed to the installation process I thought I should mention that I managed to establish an internet connection several times last night.
On a whim I decided to play around with the homegroup troubleshooter which then prompted me to try the network troubleshooter and somehow or another I was able to connect again that way. I'm not sure why it didn't do the same whenever I tried troubleshooting the connection from the system tray, not unless it has something to do with homegroup. So I'm really not sure if I have homegroup set up correctly (my other computer which is hooked directly to modem has Windows 8 on it, so I'm not sure if there are any known Windows 8 conflicts) or if that should even be a factor, but what happened is since I had an internet connection I went ahead and installed my updates. Naturally, I was prompted to restart so that windows can proceed to configure updates. Updates were configured but whenever I signed back in there was no longer an internet connection.
I managed to reestablish the connection a couple times but each time I had to reinstall all 128 updates. So the last time I established internet connection prior to going to bed I set it to download all 128 updates again and went on to bed. I haven't been able to reconnect to the internet at all today. Also, I should probably note that this all took place using the iso I downloaded from the tutorial (from this site). I am somewhat curious if windows firewall isn't blocking my wifi signal.
Anyways, I keep getting sucked into 'troubleshooting my connection problem' when most likely I should start over again. I told myself I would give it a few hours and post here first. So what do you guys think?