I inherited a virtually brand new Sony Vaio laptop from over 11 years ago. It is running Windows XP SP2. It remained literally dormant until I got my hands on it.
When I tried to connect to the internet, I was unable to. Back in the day, I helped the now deceased setup their laptop. I know it worked back then.
Unfortunately, now it no longer connects despite doing a full factory image restore.
What happens is the old outdated IE 6 browser won't connect...or actually only partially connect to Yahoo's webpage telling me to upgrade to Firefox and even then the scripts are all messed up.
What I ended up doing was downloading onto a USB drive Firefox. I was able to connect but only after agreeing to so many certificates. Each time I would visit a site via FF, I was warned and had to accept the certificates before I can browse.
My guess is that XP has expired scripts that prevents the OS to access the internet.
I am thinking I may need to download from another PC maybe Microsoft Framework or who knows what to get the laptop to access the internet.
I did manage to update to service pack 3, but I had to do a few registry hacks before it would install it. However, this did not fix the issue of not being able to connect to the web.
One more thing, I updated the OS to Windows 7. I was able to gain internet access, but I had a few yellow flags in device manager for the video and mass storage controller. Besides, the laptop ran ridiculously slow after the update so I redid the factory restore and started fresh.
Any suggestions to get the laptop connected fully to the internet?
When I tried to connect to the internet, I was unable to. Back in the day, I helped the now deceased setup their laptop. I know it worked back then.
Unfortunately, now it no longer connects despite doing a full factory image restore.
What happens is the old outdated IE 6 browser won't connect...or actually only partially connect to Yahoo's webpage telling me to upgrade to Firefox and even then the scripts are all messed up.
What I ended up doing was downloading onto a USB drive Firefox. I was able to connect but only after agreeing to so many certificates. Each time I would visit a site via FF, I was warned and had to accept the certificates before I can browse.
My guess is that XP has expired scripts that prevents the OS to access the internet.
I am thinking I may need to download from another PC maybe Microsoft Framework or who knows what to get the laptop to access the internet.
I did manage to update to service pack 3, but I had to do a few registry hacks before it would install it. However, this did not fix the issue of not being able to connect to the web.
One more thing, I updated the OS to Windows 7. I was able to gain internet access, but I had a few yellow flags in device manager for the video and mass storage controller. Besides, the laptop ran ridiculously slow after the update so I redid the factory restore and started fresh.
Any suggestions to get the laptop connected fully to the internet?
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