I am a FIOS subscriber who conects to the internet via an Actiontec router. I want to assign static IP addresses to my laptop, and my kid's laptops. In the router, I have the ability to identify the IP address as "Static Leased". Also, I know that I can assigned a static IP address through VISTA. Is it necessary to do both? If not, is one preferable over the other? I don't want overkill, but want...

This is regarding a desktop using Vista Home Premium and a laptop using Vista Home Premium. A shared printer is attached to the desktop. I've spent more than a few hours of researching on the internet, including the technet information for Vista file/print sharing. I have enabled file and print sharing without using a password on a private network. I have Xp machines on my home network. I...

I have similar problem as Linda830 but a bit more basic. I have a printer on a wireless XPHome Desktop and I want to print from a Vista Home Basic Laptop.Configuration is as follows; XPHome desktop wired to Linksys Wireless router Wireless XPHome desktop with Canon ip4200 printer Wireless Vista Home Basic laptop I can see the wireless desktop and printer from the wired desktop I want to but...

I've read some of the other posts but don't know which apply to me. Here are my specifics: 3 PC's (Windows XP Home, Windows XP Pro and Vista Home Premium The two XP's work flawlwssly with simple file sharing and printer sharing - the Vista has a problem. All I care about having work, for now, is simple file sharing with no user restrictions and printer sharing. All Workgroups are the same. The...

When I try to run GPUPDATE, it hangs there and eventually says it has stopped responding. If I try to run RSOP it also stops responding. When I try to shut down or log off, I get stuck at Logging Off, I have left it for hours. I eventually have to power off the machine to get it back up. I have the following errors in the event logs Log Name: Application Source: Group Policy...

Great fix guys. Not only does my laptop NOT give me the option of using the AERO interface anymore, the icon is still missing. :mad: What's it going to take to "fix" this? Reinstall? -- swiftouch

Hey all and thanks ahead, Background before the question: I work for an architecture firm and are the test subjects to upgrading because we are the graphics department with all the programs that hog memory and have all the 64-bit programs... Adobe Photoshop CS4, 3DS Max 2009 and Revit 2008. I recently upgraded my machine to Vista Business x64 and all my co-workers except for one other (who also...

My situation: New HP Laptop PC with RealTek RTL8102E/8103E Family PCI-E FE NIC and Broadcom 802.11b/g WLAN adapter, connected to WRTP54G Linksys Router, to Comcast cable modem. PC will connect (local and internet) wireless, but will not find and identify the router when hardwired. Can remove the router from the equation and plug the cable modem in directly and Vista will find and connect to...

I have been unable to connect via wireless recently because my computer will not locate any networks. I let Windows diagnose the problem and get a message stating that "the Windows Wireless Service is not running on this computer". I am given an option to start Windows Wireless Service but am then given a message that Windows cannot resolve the problem. This is a new problem, I have used...

Hi, I managed to get my PC to communicate but only one way. I have connected via an ethernet cat5 cable. I am also running McAfee on both PCs. I can get the XP to talk to the Vista machine but not the other way round. I managed to copy files from the XP to Vista with no real hitches. However, when in vista and trying to open up the shared view of the XP PC I get unable to communicate. Error...

hey guys, Much like everyone else, I'm having issues getting my vista/xp wireless network going. The routing of the network is like this: Motorolla modem --- Netgear Wireless Router --- Hard wired into Desktop running Windows XP Pro SP3 ---- Wireless to Vista Ultimate x32

Does Vista Firewall support 2 ACTIVE network connections? It seems that the firewall is designed to only support one active NIC at a time. I pose this question as I have 2 disjointed NICS and cannot get Firewall to behave correctly. Network 1) accesses the LAN and the internet thru a gateway. Network 2) accesses a private WAN thru a layer 5 switch For Vista Firewall: Network #1 has been...

Hi all, is there any way to exclude a specific host from the DNS cache on a Vista machine? Ie: all DNS lookups should be cached BUT the specific host www.microsoft.com, which should always be resolved from the DNS server. (this is an example) Please advice!

1. I have a Vista Ultimate installation on PC1. 2. I have mapped drives (from Server1 - SBS2008) automatically generated at logon. 3. I am running a program that uses the mapped drives and it works great. 4. I RDP to PC1 from Server1 - program can not access mapped drives. 5. Same problem exists when remotely controlling via Remote Web Workplace. 6. Mapped drives work perfectly when accessed via...

Hi: I am having problems with me wireless network. There is a new network that appears when I try to join my own wireless network. the name of this network is w-network. I know that I can block this network from my router but I need an IP or MAC Address. my question is how do I find the IP or Mac address if I only have the name? Thank you Mario

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I have a Toshiba Laptop running Vista and a Dell with Xp on a wireless network . A Brother MFC 6490CW is also connected over wlan. Everything works great when I start Vista, but after 10-15 min, Vista forgets both the XP machine and the wireless printer. If you log out and back in, or reboot everything is there again...for 10-15 minutes. What did I do wrong???

I have enabled offline files from Vista on my laptop to a network share. While it works for most of the files (there may be 20 marked for offline use) it gets stuck with an "Access Denied" on the same 2-3 files each time. Two fustrating things then happen: 1) the files are not synced and I know that they are not currently open by other users; 2) a number of TMP files start to collect with...

Vista Home Premium keeps dropping my internet connection. It happens every day and it happens two or three times a day. Before I bought Vista I was running XP SP2 on this machine and I never had problems with it. I have two other computers on my network. One runs XP and the other is a Mac. Neither of them have internet connectivity issues - only my Vista machine, and only since I started...

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