Wireless icon in system tray is not there. It doesn't show up at all.

You got that right on dumping HP! In talking to others, HP seems to be notorious for things like this.

Nothing has helped. HP Wireless Assistant says it installed okay, but still does not work.
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To Suspishio:
I'm assuming the Wireless Adapter you are talking about is:
Microsoft ISATAP Adapter
When I first started having a problem, it showed up in Device Manager and was yellow. I messed...

I have an HP dv6000 notebook computer with Vista. All of a sudden the wireless connection stopped working. I have wireless in my home so I know there is connection service available. The computer I...

Caperjack,

Thank you, thank you, thank you!! I got the CD from work (I keep it there for safekeeping. I will re-evaluate that!). I repaired XP, then had to re-download all the service packs,...

I tried using the CD, but it wouldn't boot.

Well, I went to the Microsoft web site and got a set of start-up disks (6 disks). Wouldn't you know it, the fifth disk had a corrupt file! It's the disk.sys file. Therefore, I am back to square...

I will try that, but will have to wait until tomorrow. Don't have a winxp start-up disk here. I will have to make one at work.

I tried pressing F8. I got into the screen mentioned. However, I get the same screen -- the Microsoft XP screen. I do have restore turned on, but I cannot get to that screen. I tried pressing...

I did a very bad thing. I ran a spyware software program yesterday and found a lot of spyware on my computer. I started deleting the items by hand in regedit. However, I got tired and went to bed....