Alright. Here's the skinny:

I'm between laptops right now, so I'm borrowing the wife's. A Dell E1505. She's got an internal wireless card, and for some reason, it's suddenly not picking up any networks. Not the home network or the one at school.

Or, I should say… if I use the Windows wireless network connection (clicking on the monitor icon in the system tray and using that to try to connect) it says there are no networks in range.* 

However, under Control Panel, if I click on something called "Wireless Configuration Utility"... which is apparently a separate utility native to Dell computers… I can see other networks! But even when I select "let this tool manage your wireless networks", I cannot connect to them using this Wireless Configuration Utility.

I'm getting frustrated -- any ideas?

Things that I have done:

- Uninstalled and reinstalled the wireless card
- Made sure Windows Zero Configuration service was turned on and running.

*Occasionally, a little dialogue bubble will pop up saying "one or more networks are in range" but when I click it, it goes back to saying "There are no networks in range."

Also: the wireless is turned on. (which I am assuming is indicated by the fact that the little green "wifi" indicator is on)

Never mind. I just re-installed everything.

See? Don't we give great advice?

Have you tried re-installing everything?