If your machine is having a number of issues I would start fresh, so buy
another meal for your friend. You may want to see if he would be willing to
document what he does so you could follow a step-by-step. In reality, the
router setup will not change and your machine is probably already set to
recieve an IP address from the router. So you really should not need to have
your friend do anything, unless you are using a wireless network and have
encryption enabled then you will need the key assigned to your machine
again.

Good luck.

"Michael Stevens" <mstevens@bogusmvps.org> wrote in message
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> In news:%23dAZarRDGHA.740@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl,
> Trent SC <invalid@bogoff.invalid> replied with a ;-)
>> A colleague borrowed my laptop last week and kindly infected it with
>> a virus (pauses to send him another email of abuse). I've managed to
>> clean the machine of the virus and its various files, but the
>> after-effects are causing a degree of instability and poor
>> performance: the machine boots up more slowly and displays occasional
>> odd behaviour.
>> My thinking is that a repair/reinstall might be a smart idea, but I
>> have one question regarding the networking settings. I'm no expert
>> on networking, and persuaded a colleague to set up the networking
>> between the laptop, desktop and router. Since I have no desire to
>> become conversant with networking, I'd like some reassurance that a
>> repair/reinstall will not have an effect on the existing network
>> settings. Or am I going to have to buy my friend another dinner to
>> thank him for re-networking the thing?
>> TIA
>
> A repair install will leave the setting intact, a reinstall will not.
> Repair Install
> http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/XPrepairinstall.htm
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