Hi gang, I have a Netgear Wireless Internet connection set up on 2 desktop computers - one running WinXP and the other on WinVista Premium 32Bit. Everything works very smoothly on the WinXP PC, starts up, connects to the Internet via the Belkin dongle to the Netgear router no prob. The WinVista PC is a completely different story!! It starts up, system tray loads and - as has happened...

Hi, I have an Asus Laptop with Windows Vista Home Basic. It is connected to my home wireless network (router, adsl). One PC, running XP can connect and access Internet with no problems. Another one, also running XP cannot access Internet, apparently it as the same problem ( the symptoms at least are the same). Details: All browsers return a Page cannot be displayed or a Unable to connect error

I have been beating my head on this for a week now to no avail. Anyone with any help, I would SOOOO greatly appreciate it! SBS 2008 Standard, SP2 Vista SP2 Still receiving errors after trying all the different fixes on Google: • Checked permissions on Folders, Created New Folders, verified permissions on GP

I have a desktop with Vista os and a laptop with XP os, I'm having problems sharing files between the two computers. Any help or assistance would be appreciated. Thanks

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...

Hi, I just installed an old XP machine in an existing and working network with a mix of XP and Vista PCs. From the newly installed XP machine I can access the files on the other computers, but when trying to log onto the internet, I get the message that the connection was interrupted. I think I've checked everything, but must be overlooking something. Does anyone have any suggestions how to...

Hi everyone. Tomorrow is the last day of this group. After years of being here, and thousands of postings it is time to say Goodbye. :D Jack (MS, MVP-Networking).

hey guys, hoping somebody has an idea for this one. i've seen this issue described pretty much exactly in one other post, but nobody replied to the guy. i have a computer running vista ultimate, connected to LAN/WAN via a wireless connection to a router. the router and wireless adpater are setup to establish an IP using DHCP. i also have an xbox 360 connected to the vista machine via a...

I cannot connect to my other computer! Everytime i click on the other computer i get this message 'specified Network Provider name is invalid'. Has anyone an idea how to fix this problem? I get the same message on the other computers. Yes Vista Home Prem. They were able to see each other at first. I was able to share files and drives now i can't and i don't know what i did to change that....

every morning when I turn on my laptop, I get the stupid balloon in the corner, and it wouldn't be a problem if it went away, but I have to click on the "x" to get rid of it. Computer's are supposed to make my life easier, not harder. This stupid useless balloon is not helping me, and I want to get rid of it. I know it has to be a registry entry somewhere. does anyone have an answer? Thanks

Dear All, I have a small wireless network at home. It used to be unsecured with MAC address filtering but once I found that MAC addresses could be cloned, I replaced all my WAPs to be able to use WPA-2 encryption. Now vista retains the old unsecured profiles (even though it recognises them to be defunct) in the connect to a network box which appears when I move around the house and change the...

so i merged these networks i went and disabled my wireless adapter, at the moment i'm using a cable to connect to my at&t modem... when i enable it it will connect to 2wire but 2wire won't connect to the internet which was the same problem as what i had before disabling it. also i don't know if this matter but when i click on that merge network neither of the networks i merged are there --...

I have accidentally merged two network locations(two NICs) into one, now I can't unmerge them. In "merge or delete dialog" the network location appears to always be "in use" so I can't delete it and start from scratch.

Can i control my xp home desktop using my windows vista home? How can i do it?

All machines that I am working on are Vista. When I try and print to a shared printer the job always shows up in the print queue as 'paused'. If I right click and select 'resume printing' it prints fine. I have tried several printer driver options all with the same results. Any ideas?

Ther printers is printing but is not printing the correct contents of the file, it prints charachters like box or symbols etc.. Can you please help

Not Vista, but both sides... XP and Windows 7. This is the only "Sharing" place found. On the 7 machine I have a printer that is shared, but it can not be seen by the XP machine. On the XP machine I do a Add Printer, the 7 machine name is found but there are no printers there to select. Both machines are in the same workgroup.

Hi all; I have a divx reader with hard disk connected by a wireless network to my PC: while I was renaming some folders the network went down and the folders become files, so now are unreadable. Now, when I connect the network drive, in the left column I have 8 folders (instead of the 10 that I had before) and two files of 0kb. Before this problem these two files were two folders containing...

Hi I have been trying to connect my pc to xbox 360 through a wireless network for weeks, the xbox finds my pc when the pc is plugged into it with an ethernet but cannot find it through wireless. all my housemates pc's connect fine through wireless. vista can find the xbox on the network map. -- the wilson

Hi, I got a new pc with Vista home premium. With my broadband connection, I am able to borwse internet sites, except microsoft sites (hotmail, msn). Also certail applications do not recognize the internrt connection - Any clue what is the problem?