My brother's having a problem with his laptop on Vista, and he can't access the internet, so I'm using my laptop to ask this question. We're both on the same wireless network, but I'm on XP, and my 7 year old laptop is absolutely fine!!
He has a Toshiba laptop, Vista Home Premium Service Pack 1, 32-bit, 2 GB Ram.
He's running PC Tools Firewall+, and Threatfire ant-virus software. The problem only started yesterday.
When he tries to log in as an ordinary user, he gets the error message: "Windows could not connect to the system Event Notification Service service", before the desktop is displayed.
When he logs in as administrator he gets "Windows wireless service not running", but the desktop is displayed.
He's gone into the services option within Task Manager, and tried to manually start the service, to no avail.
There are also no system restore points available.
Any ideas?
Thanks in advance for your help.