Tip/Trick Summary: Potential resolution to the message ‘An error occured while renewing interface local area connection 3 : The system cannot find the file specified’ encountered while trying to renew IP

1. Click on Start
2. Go to Control Panel
3. Change the View to Classic View (much easier to find the icon you need)
4. Double Click on the icon that says Administrative Tools
5. Click on where it says Services, and that is Services by itself, nothing else.
6. Find where it says DHCP Client, or just DHCP and click on it.
7. Underneath it should say Start Automatically, if it doesnt, just click on it and change it to automatically
8. Make sure that it also says Started, if not, like in my case it said Stopped, click on the button underneath that says START, close it out and run ipconfig again, there should be an ip address and they should be able to surf.