Can't say why I exactly did it. I don't remember exactly but I`m trying to remember I know I did some stuff in REGEDIT and some in another thing I can't quite remember the name of it but it had to do with mircosoft something. Looking online for tweaks trying to find the ones I did.
It's going to be pretty much impossible to determine whether you've broken something with your tweaks if you can't remember what you've done.
In these cases... well a clean install is normally best, although I am loathe to recommend that if it might not be your computer, and especially as Wireless is working, so you still have internet.
One thing that you COULD try, is from an elevated command prompt, type (without quotes) "ipconfig /release *" followed by "ipconfig /renew *"
Thanks for the pic. What it tells me is that the ethernet card appears to be properly installed and its enabled. Assuming its not a driver issue you really would need to test it out somehow on another network as mentioned like a friends or with a router that has DHCP enabled for a wired connection. If your using a firewall maybe you could disable it for 5-10 minutes while you try connecting the lan cable to the appartment lan connection. Also try running a ipconfig /renew to see if you get any errors or does it just time out ?
Hope the above helps.
Victor
Does the above error come up right away when you enter the command and hit return or does it take a minute or so ? It seems to be that it its likely the company's issue right now as I cannot see any issues with the lan connection on Windows 7. I was looking for a different error indicating that it could be a TCP/IP issue on Windows 7. You can also try this command from the cmd prompt. Try typing ping 127.0.0.1 and see if you get replies. I have read that is another method of checking to see if the TCP/IP stack is working on the computer. Make sure the wireless is disabled when you try this.
I do have another question for you. Has the ethernet connector on the Windows 7 computer worked before ?
Victor
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