Network connections window blank after recovering from crash

Greetings,

I had an XP crash today, and when I rebooted, I was
prompted to repair a system file with the XP setup disk.
I did that and the system came back up OK. The only
problem I have is that the Network Connections window is
blank, even though I have a wireless 802.11g network and
a wired NIC that is not used.

The wireless network works just fine, but is not present
in that window. When I try to 'refresh' the window, I
get an error message that the Network Connections folder
could not find any adapters and I should check if the
Network Connections service is running.

I checked the service was running...stopped it, started
it, restarted it, rebooted etc. and still I can't solve
this item.

Again, this only started after I recovered from an XP
crash.

Can anyone help me? Thanks in advance,
Chris