Ipconfig fails in XP

[vmikhelson]

Originally Posted by TheWickerMan

Hmmm........
The fact that it works in safe mode with networking makes me think that there's some program that's causing it to not run properly. Microsoft has a nice utility called autoruns (http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/s.../bb963902.aspx) that lets you view all the things that startup when windows starts. You may want to go through all of those and start filing them down and see if you can find the culprit.

Sorry for misunderstanding.

Safe Mode is used in my workaround for a single purpose of uninstalling a NIC in Device Manager. It cannot be done in Normal Mode in 98% of cases. Device Manager hangs... Which makes me think again that it is a Registry issue. Corruption, permissions, etc.

After a NIC has been uninstalled and the laptop is booted normally networking functions as it should until the next reboot. Then all fails miserably again.