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).

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).

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 there, I use a 3Com 3CWRDR100A-72 router that has worked faultlessly with many devices in my house; W2K laptop XP Tablet PC x 2 iPAQ 2210 & Socket CF Wi-Fi card iPAQ 4700 XBOX 360

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

Hey, I am hoping someone can help me with my internet problem. I own a Toshiba Equium A200-151, which I bought in 2007. As I was losing space on the vista part of the hard drive I decided to uninstall programs I was no longer using. I uninstalled google chrome and Norton360 secruity and McFee.

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 --...

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?

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...

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 Groupies I am no network guru! I have a basic network in my home. I can see a shared folder on my laptop and a shared folder on my tower. However, I can only drag and drop data from the tower to the laptop but not from the laptop to the tower. I believe that I had granted full permission between the two and I thought I had set up everything the same but obviously something is missing.