Oh Wow!! This is a great bit to absorb or even try testing for someone lacking the computer know how of those here. I'm running Vista and attempting to connect via a public network. I'm connected to the network but cannot access the internet. A friend sitting right beside running XP on her laptop connects to the same network without any problem at all! This is a problem that only presents...

Hi all, I'm having this prblem for long time now but recently it happens a lot, I use wireless lan on my laptop for surfing interent evey time and then i just get disconnected from the internet with no reason, fire fox says "failed to connect" and when i try internet explorer it just say connection failed, please help Ibrahim

I have 2 pcs - one with Vista Home Premium (32 bit/sp2) - one with XP Home (32 bit/sp3) I can ping from both machines. I can browse the XP machine from Vista and copy and paste files. I cannot however do this from the XP machine. I get "x is not accessible" "access denied" messages instead. I am sharing a folder on my C drive called "downloads" and have checked

I have a Vista Laptop that needs to access a printer on an XP computer in my sister's law office. I'm having trouble trying to even have the XP computer show up consistently on my sister's computer. I can ping it every time from the command prompt. I have all firewalls unenabled on both computers. Identical user accounts on both systems. File and Print sharing set up on both. The Link Layer...

Hi, I have 3 machines on a network. 1Vista PC, 1 iMac, 1Xp PC. I have a satellite internet connection with a router attached, into which the three machines connect. Everyone has internet OK. The vista machine can see everone but access (shared folders) no-one, the iMac can access all, The XP can see and share fine. I am set as an administrator, the message Windows cannot access \\NAME, network...

Goto Control Panel / Network and Sharing Center. Page is blank except for "The page failed to load" right in the middle. LAN continues to somewhat function, but wireless is no longer functioning. Network notification icon on task bar is disabled. I have no idea when this stopped functioning, but sometime in the last week.

Why it is slow to open only this NG while other sites opens up almost instantaneously using IE8. My specs: Athlon LE1620 2GHz, 2GB RAM, Avira Antivirus, Windows Vista Ultimate.

I have a question about using wireless networks in hotels. My wife travels some, and she is not a "power user". I usually end up talking her through the manual connection to the hotel's wireless network over the phone the first time, then it auto-connects after that. My question is this - is there a way to auto-connect to any wireless network the laptop sees, to make that process easier for...

Hi, I'm trying to connect to my work vpn from home. I can connect to the vpn and the box says connection successful, but after that I can't use email, internet or my work software programs. One of the software programs works for a minute, and then says connection aborted. I go back to the VPN connection screen and it still says I'm

So yesterday after restarting comp I lost access to internet, but not the connection itself. I'm able to ping sites, use windows update and normal network sharing stuff, but unable to open any browser pages (with IE or firefox). IE gives page not found error and firefox just blank page and both give "stopped responding" message on exit. Connection itself is fine since 2 other comps have no...

My internet connection just stopped working after my battery died and i re-booted my laptop. It is a compaq presario running windows vista basic. I am plugged directly into the wall but I cannot get a connection. It says i am connected to my network but with local access only. Can someone please help? mike

I have just recently cleaned my computer using a duster after having not cleaned it for a good 2-3 months and have 2 pcs connected to a billion...Billion modem which I do not remember the serial for. Since reconnecting the PC however after cleaning it out the machine no longer detects my Ethernet cable as being plugged into my network card (a Realtek RTL8168B/8111B Family PCi-E GBE NIC)....I have...

Hi, I want to enable in Windows Vista 32 Restart option, when system connected through remotely. -- Dharender Verma

Hi all, I've noticed that my new Vista box is slow to reestablish networking after it wakes from sleep. For example, if I put it to sleep, wake it, and then visit a site, IE just spins. However, if I wait a bit and try again, everything works. On my XP and Win2000 boxes, as soon as it wakes, I can immediately do stuff.

I have a whitebox with an AMD Athlon 3000+ processor and an Asus K8U-X mainboard. I'm running Windows Vista Premium x64. Very often, though not completely consistently, when waking from sleep the computer will not connect to the network for several minutes; I know the network is running because my Macs can access it (including networked printers and the Internet) immediately. I have turned the...

Vista Ultimate 32bit... Network connection is OK; can see internet and other computers on the network. Context help for the connection status icon on the task tray states "status Unknown". Network and Sharing Center states that the service to show the connections and server list is not turned on. Clicking the provided link will not turn this service on. Computer discovery on the network and...

Hi im having trouble sharing files between my vista 64 pc and my vista home basic laptop.I have enabled file sharing network discovery and public folder sharing also media sharing.My router is a Belkin G the laptop is a HP550.My user accounts and password are the same.The laptop is able to share the media stored on the pc but not share files.Please could you advise me?I have read in other posts...

Hi all, I can not connect cisco vpn by using windows vista but I use windows xp i can connect this cisco vpn. When i try to connect cisco vpn with windows vista I see this error message "Secure VPN Connection terminated locally by the Client. Reason 403: Unable to contact the security gateway". My vpn client version is 5.0.04.0300 How can i try to connect that cisco vpn with windows vista please?

The shared printer is connected to LPT of a Vista computer. We used to have an XP computer that could print to this printer. We changed the XP comp for a Vista notebook. This notebook has the same user/password as the Vista machine where the printer is connected to. Hence, this user can print from the notebook. Now the strange part: another user on this notebook can't. It is sent to the printer...

Hi, We have a Windows Server 2003 active directory domain, ISA server with VPN, and one Windows Vista client. The Vista owner calls me every time he wants to connect with VPN, and tells me that he cannot. Looking in Active Directory shows me, that his domain user account is locked out. When I unlock the account he is able to login. It seems that something (a service? office 2007?) does try...