Hi Smurfy,
I have just now run the first three commands, and I will see how it goes. I did see a message after running the first command that said, "No operation can be performed on Ethernet while it has its media disconnected," and I realized that's because I had the original port empty, and the ethernet wire was plugged into the second NIC that I just bought. That one seemed to carry through with the command. Hopefully that's okay? Perhaps I should rerun the commands with the wire plugged into the first one at some point?
If I have the problem still later on, then I will PM you the results of the second instruction you gave me. I noticed this morning, though, I cannot copy and paste from that command prompt -- unless there's some way to do that that I'm not aware --? I can't highlight it at all to be able to copy it.
Thank you for your help!
Mrs.Lufbra