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Ok, heres the setup, My vista pc and my xp pc are connected via ethernet to a linksys wireless-g router, running dd-wrt firmware (but I doubt thats the problem). Anyways, I've worked and worked. And so far all I can do is SEE the xp pc in the full view of the network in the network and sharing center in vista, and I can SEE the vista pc in the "Entire Network" properties in XP. However. The XP machine cannot be seen in the "Networked Devices" in vista, and it cannot be accessed from the full-view map either. And the vista pc cannot be accessed from the XP machine because it says I don't have the privileges to do so. So in Vista, the network and sharing center is in private with file and public sharing on along with network discovery.In XP I set up the network and had a couple of files shared. My network knowlege is limited, but this wasnt a problem before, a couple months back before I formatted the XP machine, the wireless network was ok, and the few times I connected the ethernet, it worked well. So is there anyway I can see both pc's on both ends and access each from the other? Is thereA guide or something I didnt notice on google? HepME Please!? Thanks in advance. EDIT: I tried to access the xp machine from vista using //PC_NAME, and I connected...I think, well it asked for a password, and, i NEVER set a password, so when I enter anything, it just says the same thing when the xp machine tries to connect to the Vista machine, I don't have access, or enough privileges or such. Help please.

Ok,I wil try that now. EDIT: WONDERFUL!! It worked beautifully, I totally forgot how it felt to have explorer up on startup, lol. Thanks alot for your help. Very very very much.

Well, like I said, I really wish I could do that. But I cant for one system restore wasnt turned on at the time and wasnt turned on until a week or so later (for some reason vista never turned it on for me when I first installed.)

Hi, I just installed Parallels and it's working wonderfully, but the guest OS (XP) cant connect to the net. When I went to inspect everything, I ended up in the Vista network and sharing center. Its shows that the parallels host-guest virtual nic is showing up as a public Unidentified Network, I then try to use the ICS (Internet Connection Sharing) service under my main network connection but when i try to activate it, I get: An error occurred when trying to enable ICS. Error code (null) No matter what I tried I kept getting this error. I also tried applying it in the virtual nic (unidentified network) and it works, but, since its virtual, it leads no-where, so no net. Does anyone know why I'm getting this "null" error, or can anyone help me sort out this problem. Please. Thanks.

Hmm, the only remote software I have is VNC server, and that has been with me since I first installed Vista. The only astranged software that a family member has installed as of late, was some MAC address thing that, according to her, changed the mac address everytime windows loaded, but I couldnt find any trace of it (and now everytime the pc goes to sleep the network dies and I have to fully restart) Its a bit ways off to try a system restore, is there anyway I can Resolve this? Ive tried the repair from the disk, no luck. Also. It wasnt windows defender giving me the message about winlogon.exe, But actually the UAC, I disabled the UAC and rebooted, but this time, no messages no nothig. Explorer.exe still wouldnt start now there just wasnt any message...just a blue screen with my mouse, so as usual, I manually started it.

I'm sorry for bumping this, but I cant find a solution ANYWHERE please, is there anyon e who knows how I can get the windows explorer to start on system startup. Please.

Hey all. I'm having a bootup problem. I'm running vista x86 ultimate. And recently, everytime I boot up the pc, windows defender asks to allow winlogin to work, i click ok and it goes to a black screen...just there, so i ctrl+alt+del, and manually start explorer with the task manager and everythings fine. Thats my only major problem right now, along a few visual problems. But Ive been using vista fr a lLONG while now and this is the first major problem i've had, Any help?

Hey man, I thank you for the help, I was on that road, but I fixed it lol. I (somehow) installed XP, got this program, vista boot pro, and it said that none of the boot files? pointed to a drive and I couldnt edit them. So I created a new vista boot and pointed it to the old vista drive..didnt work so well still wouldnt boot, but now the problem was simplified. I ran the installatin disk and ran the repair, and loe and behold It fixed the problem, vista loaded up running the chkdsk utility and then here I am typing this back into vista. THANKS TO EVERYONE WHO HELPED ME!. I wont soon forget this, lol.

*sigh* Well, like I said, NO other OS will load...at all...no other hd with any other os will load, the only things that load are the vista install cd (when sata channel is turned off which is useless cuz all my drives are SATA), xp and linux distros, but xp cant install for some reason and linux wont detect MY SATA drives.

Wow...umm....thats wonderful, but I tried the F8 function at first, leads me to a message about windows cant boot bacuase of a missing boot file location, thats the problem, NOTHINg will work. Thanls for the tip though.

K, I did some checking, and the vista cd WILL boot ONLY when I turn off the SATA channels, thats the only time the disc will load, Is there a way I can fix that?

Acronis Disk Director Suite usually messed up any vista instalatin I had, thats why I stopped using it (although I love it besides the no vista support), and if possible, maybe you could point me to where I could find out how to do the other options u mention?....

K, the vista dvd WONT START like i said, it goes to the windows loading bar but freezes after that. I tried changing my Hard Drive, and after the windows loading bar I got the mouse cursor, but thats it. Is there nothing else I can try, I cant get anything AT ALL.

K, Here it is shortened. Vista Partition running out of space, decide to expand partition, in-guilt vista partition software wont EXPAND my Vista patition, search for partition software elsewhere, see some people looking for partition software also but no big worries noted, see some persons claiming the only thing to work is Gnome partitioner LiveCD, I decide to try it, it expands my partition, but now windows cant boot, had a second install of vista somehow, load it but wont....load, try Vista CD, gets to loading bar like the vista install, but doesnt boot. So, cd wont boot, secondary install wont boot, and primary install CANT boot. Is there anyhelp for this cuz the install cd itself wont load up past the Windows loading bar, so i cant even format or install another trial just to recover my stuff. Help? Just realized thats not so much short as it could be confusing, any advice though?

After a couple flights I realized that using the keyboard is not a very good choice in the use of this software. My question is for all those people who's played the game. What do you suggest I do, dish out the cash for a nice Joystick, Or get a game pad, or should I just get an actual 'gaming' keyboard (im using the standard one that came with the old pc) which should I go with?

Ok. I have 2 Hard drives a 250GB SATA WD Cavier and a 500GB SATA Samsung. My questions are: 1) For RAID to work do the hard drives HAVE to be identical and if so to what point. 2) If it did work would I have to format both hard drives or could I simply link the partition of one to the entire next hard drive... 3) Can anyone just simplify this whole thing for me? LOL. Thanks very much for any help. BTW I apologize if this was discussed before I seem to had forgotten my forum manners and search...

Well thats a possibility I highly doubt unless he can gain full access to my pc strictly through he server to install this software. And I do a full sweep of my pc once a week for anything out of the norm, and especially since that event, anything recording activity.

My home is wired up nicely, courtesy of my older brother, so all 5 of the pc's in the house connect to a server located in the living room. My question is how do I access things like IM convos, sent emails and such (blocking them reading them whatever) from the server. As it is My brother who set it up he knows but wont tell. And there was a small incident a few days ago with him publicizing one of my IM convos and Id like to go in there and stop the server from recording them. The thing is I didnt even know that it was capable of recording something from a separate pc but seeing as how the pc connects to the net through it im not surprised. Can anyone help me with this please.

I wanna say thank you to all you guys on the forum and espeacialluy zoki4, LLXX, uvmain, and the little faery in my head that made me pnder it was the bios. Cause I just upgraded it and loe and behold vista starts up in around 20 seconds. Thank you, this is why I love forums

My vista problems just keeps getting weirder and weirder. Ok as it seems..no as it is my vista runs as i would expect it to run if it were running properly. But it only runs well after I wake it from sleep. After the 30 minuite boot and 10 minuite desktop wait I have to wait even longer for it to go to sleep and wake it to have it run properly. I realized this after my 4th reboot attempt I had to leave, came back, it was asleep but when I woke it it ran wonderfully. So it seems if I never shut it off it will be ok. lol. As a matter of fact im typing this message from the vista pc right now, but how am i going to avoid shutting down for software installs and whatnot. Also I have no floppy drive to update my bios...its a custom built pc (built by me) so I never thoughtt to include a....floppy drive.

Thank you very much I will try this asap.

Wow thanks for the info. Ill try that ASAP. BTW how do I disable the Windows Time service? Also I just checked ASUS's page, im a little confused on how to update my bios...help?

Ok Ive been going through everything and I was looking around my bios settings and I was just wondering If my BIOS settings can afect the way vista runs, boots or have any of the oprobs iv ever mentioned. One of the reasons I ask is because when vista boots its like it boots at the time ithat was set, it freezes there and after the 10-15 boot time it comes up but the time doesnt change so by the time I wait through all the freezes, slowdowns and weird problems It actually ends up only going through around 10 minuites when in actuality its been on for an hour or 2 (I speak of the clock on the start bar BTW) EDIT: I forget to mention my bios settings are set to default. Version I dunno which, mobo is ASUS M2R32-MVP Also is there a possibility that the copy I have is just...bad?...

*sigh* ok, umm 11th?? install and same old sameold problem...I did take not however that when I FINALLY could access the control panel without it freezing, the device manager identified one unknown device...think Is i dont know what device it is...when I check its properties it says under device id acpi/something Im wondering if THATS the problem, and if it is what exactly IS it. I was going to remove my video card untill I found out my Motherboard doenst seem to have video out

Ok, If it is a Hardware prob im thinking between 3 peices. So if anyone can, please help me narrow it down if it is. 1) SATA Hard drive: you see, the os WILL boot up after A LONG wait. So I'm wondering if its the fact that Im running it off of a SATA hd and if so is it the hard drive that needs the drivers (as iI can see it already during install) Or is it the.. 2)Motherboar: I have a M2R32-MVP asus motherboard, appears on a truckload of lists as 'vista ready' But maybe some drivers are needed. On the site they only have sound, ethernet, and i think SATARaid controllers (im not sure u can check and tell me if im wrong 'www.asus.com and search for m2r32-mvp and look under driver downloads') or lastly im thing it is the... 3) vidoe card: Maybe due to the fact that the screena nd what not isn loading properly, but they do EVENTUALLY load as to what led me to the above hardware. Any help advice on this would really be greatfuly appreciated. ALSO: im think my amd athlon 64 x2 dual core processor but i dunno how that'd affect the os itself like that.