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general question
Hi,
I've not networked anything yet and am about to try it and thought I may save some time by asking here a couple of general questions. The setlup cosists of a laptop with wifi, and a desktop without wifi. I am sharing internet access with the two pcs via a wifi router. The desktop is cat5'ed to the router, the router cat5'ed to the modem. I have no problem connecting to the internet on either machine. The desktop is running XP professional, and the laptop is running windows 7 home basic. 1. Can you network XP and windows 7 together? 2. Does it matter which one you run the network wizard on, and if so, which one should I try it with. 3. Would I better off buying 3rd party networking software and using that instead of the microsoft nework wizards? Thanks for any help with this, and I appologize in advance for asking such basic questions. Al |