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Samson:
If your wireless network is WPA2 then you will need SP3. XP SP2 does not support WPA2 security.

Boggin:
Did you install SP3 ?

Go Start - type services.msc and press enter then check that these services are showing as either Started and Auto or Manual

COM+ Event System
Computer Browser
DHCP Client
DNS Client
Network Connections
Network Location Awareness
Remote Procedure Call (RPC)
Server
TCP/IP Netbios helper
Wired Autoconfig is set to manual.
Wireless Zero Configuration (XP wireless configurations only)
Workstation

If a service is not running, click on it to highlight then click on Start (top left).

If it fails to start then right click on the service to open its Properties and check the Dependencies and that each of them are running.

japetus:
Unfortunately, I cannot install SP3 as there is not much space available at the disk.
Had a look at services, all running except Wired Autoconfig which is not listed and Computer Browser which I try to start and it stops by itself.

Boggin:
All I've found for the Wired Auto Config missing in XP is that you get that service with SP3 - but that didn't sound right to me, although there were other suggestions to copy the key from an install disk or another XP machine.

As for the Computer Browser service, as a workaround, right click on it and select Properties and under the Recovery tab for the Subsequent failures, change that to Restart the service and for the two Restart boxes below that, set those to 0 - OK

The setting for the First and Second failures should also be set to Restart the service.

Close services and restart the computer to see if you get wireless connectivity.

To see if you can free up some space on the HDD, go Start - type disk cleanup then click on it or press enter when it comes up.

It will run once and then tell you how much space can be freed up, click on System files - OK and it will run again and may give a higher figure.

Open a Command Prompt and enter powercfg -h off followed by exit to close the cmd window.

This will turn off Hibernate but should free up a few GBs.

You'll be able to see by how much when you check C: before and after.

If that substantially improves the free space, then try the SP3 download again.

What is the history of the machine as to when wireless stopped connecting for your friend ?

I suppose it was unlikely after downloading anything with space being tight other than what may have caused the infection, but Windows needs at least 11% free space to work properly.

It's said that should be 15% but I've had a Win 7 laptop working with just 11% free - so I'm going with that.

japetus:
Sorry it took me so much time to reply, wasn't able to check the laptop any sooner...
I tried freeing as much space as I could uninstalling seldom (and not so seldom) used programs but with no result. Laptop has two ssd drives and the c:/ one where the windows installation is, is only 3.5gb as opposed to 7.5gb on d:/  I hoped that these two drives are different partitions of the same one and ran partition magic hoping to merge them but they are indeed separate ones...
I can't install sp3 as it seems.
Trying to manually configure computer browser under services to restart, didn't help either...

Seems that formatting it and perhaps setting as primary disk the larger one, and reinstalling everything, is the way to go...

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