..........things are getting worse. This thing happened again so I took the usual step of deleting the printer from the netbook and cannot now instal it. When I ask it to browse for the printer it does not find it and when I tell it the name of the printer it will still not accept that. I'm doing all this via CP - Printers and Faxes.
I have reduced the number of attached devices to 3 and said netbook is happily locked to the wireless network.
Before I go to a mate for Logmein help, has anyone got any further simple ideas.
Thanks
mcdhu