Vista intermittently resets IP address on LAN

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My HP Media Center came with an upgrade to WindowsVista; it has a number of
nice features but has caused numerous compatibility problems. The worst is
that after spending hours with Linksys (needed new wired router for LAN that
is Vista compatible), HP (ran every hardware and software diagnosis they
could think of and sayd they were stymied), Earthlink (said I entered all
information correctly) and even my cable company (said cable modem works
perfectly, as proved by fact that Windows XP SP2 computers on my LAN have
both email and Internet access), the consensus is that Vista has a flaw that
I can't solve with all of the self-help tools. Specifically, for no reason I
can ascertain, the computer resets the IP address of the wired router on my
LAN, intermittently -- sometimes on startup, sometimes during a work session
-- from the correct IP address (168.....) to some kind of default address
(169....). I seem to have lost Windows Mail even though accounts/Internet
options are correct; right now, I have Internet access. System Restore will
not get me back to when it was correct; the reboot itself sometimes does.
Any suggestions?
 
alexjr said:
My HP Media Center came with an upgrade to WindowsVista; it has a number
of
nice features but has caused numerous compatibility problems. The worst
is
that after spending hours with Linksys (needed new wired router for LAN
that
is Vista compatible), HP (ran every hardware and software diagnosis they
could think of and sayd they were stymied), Earthlink (said I entered all
information correctly) and even my cable company (said cable modem works
perfectly, as proved by fact that Windows XP SP2 computers on my LAN have
both email and Internet access), the consensus is that Vista has a flaw
that
I can't solve with all of the self-help tools. Specifically, for no
reason I
can ascertain, the computer resets the IP address of the wired router on
my
LAN, intermittently -- sometimes on startup, sometimes during a work
session
-- from the correct IP address (168.....) to some kind of default address
(169....). I seem to have lost Windows Mail even though accounts/Internet
options are correct; right now, I have Internet access. System Restore
will
not get me back to when it was correct; the reboot itself sometimes does.
Any suggestions?
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Disable email scanning in your AV Application, does it reset to 127.0.0.1?
 
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