New laptop problem, help!

Just bought our son a Gateway (MT3422) Laptop for Christmas.
Thought I plug it in to charge the battery and Intailize it.
By the way its loaded with Vista home.
It picked p the signal from our router and went right on line.
Got a pop up from MS for window updates, so downloaded them, all 29.
Hav'nt been able to get online since, Webpage cannot be displayed, keeps coming up. The check says its getting an "excellent connection".
Any ideas?.......Thanks Dennis........

 

Make sure you are trying to connect to the correct wifi network name and not someone elses. The make sure your router is connected.

Test the wifi router by visiting a web page with another computer. If it works, then your router is fine.

 

Router is working well, as I useing on my laptop. Fixed the the problem. Did a systems restore to a date befor I added the up dates..Thanks for the come back.....Dennis

 

There was a recent problem with Internet Explorer.

You shouldn't be using IE in the first place...

Download Firefox.

 

Go in and check your security settings. Alot of times windos when it does online updates will set your security settings to what it believes is ideal. Many of my customers have had issues with this and Vista. They download the MS recomended DL (I never would) and it resets the security settings not allowing to to connect.

 

and dont use IE.
firefox ftw!

 

Another good one that works sometimes is opening up the command line by clicking Start>Run> type: cmd >hit-enter and type: ipconfig /release then ipconfig /renew.

Vista isn't that an anacronym? Viruses, Intruders, Spyware, Trojans and Adware??? :lol:

 

Vista runs fine for me now that I have more ram (1.5 gigs, but 128mb is dedicated video memory)...

And it looks better than any version of freeware you can throw at it. If it was so crappy, why would apple try to copy it for their Leopard OS?

 

I think you may have Vista confused with something else.

Mac didn't copy Vista for Leopard.

Is there a Vista version that is Freeware? I'd like to try it.

 

as a previous person stated u might be attempting to connect to wrong network.
I would strongly advise going straight from the modem into the laptop ?(dont use router) just to verify that you can get online (or u could just connect ethernet cable to router instead of going wireless: again this is just to make sure that u can access the internet)...