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Here's my experience trying to network a desktop xp pc and a vista laptop. I just learned the hard way that a slight mistake in numbers can take you in circles. Here was my situation: I was able to connect to my files stored on the xp desktop from vista laptop but couldn't connect to shared resources on the vista laptop from the xp desktop. I could ping the xp desktop but not the vista laptop. I could see the vista laptop in the xp desktop but couldn't not access it. I couldn't not see the xp desktop in vista laptop even though xp had the LLTD update. I spent countless hours trying to figure out what the deal was. I suspected Norton Internet Security since a lot of people reported this problem but boy they were wrong; NIS was innocent. Finally, it turned out that my subnet mask in xp desktop was set to 255.255.0.0. How it got that way I do not know. I was lucky enough to notice it before I pulled out all my hair and went bald. I corrected this to 255.255.255.0 and lo and behold, I was able to network and see both computers mutually. So, before you suspect NIS or any other firewall, make sure you got all of your numbers straight. I had also seen on the net that some people recommended giving "Everyone" all the privileges to the networked resources because they couldn't not connect a vista computer to an xp computer. I don't recommend this. If you can't access resources, it means you need to investigate all your setting are correct: 1) Check your workgroup. Make sure it is spelled exactly the same in each computer. 2) Check firewall and make sure all of your computer belong to a trusted network. You may have to add each computer's IP or MAC address to each computer's firewall settings. Double check your numbers. 3) Check to see if you can ping the computers. I wasn't able to ping because my subnet mask was wrong. If you can't ping, you need to make sure you IP address is correct and your subnet mask is correct. Other can add tips if they wish.

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Let's see, wireless speeds today are in excess of 54 mbps. Internet speeds are in excess of 3 mbps or 5 mbps or may faster but certainly less than 54 mbps. thus, for browsing the web, no you will not notice a decrease in performance because browsing is the slowest component. as for file sharing between two computers, i don't think you need to worry. If though routers can be rated at 54 mbps, you won't get that speed anyways. If you are still concerned, best way to find out is to unsecure it, test, secure it, then test and see if you notice any difference. Honestly, security is priority over performance for me.

Oh my gosh! Are you serious. I'd call that time consuming!! Yes, you need to learn how to share files. Make sure that if you have a firewall, you need to define a trusted network in your firewall so it doesn't block file sharing between the two computers. (Also, if you have a USB flash drive and USB ports on both computers, you could use that to transfer files rather than opening up the case. USB flash drives are cheap. The amount you can transfer will depend on the capacity of your USB. So while you are trying to figure out how to network and file share, I'd consider investing in a USB flash drive to transfer files.)

You don't have to "map" a drive. You just need to share your software folder on your host pc. Make sure you have your host pc with the same login/password as your two virtual xp's. If your virtual xp's do not have a login, create one with the same login/password as your host. Then, make sure all of your computers (physical and virtual) have the same workgroup. right-click my computer, properties --> look for workgroup and assign give it the same workgroup name. computer names can be different. You'll have to restart all of them for changes. If you have static IP, make sure your subnet mask is 255.255.255.0 and not 255.255.0.0. I was doing the same thing your are doing and I just about went bald trying to figure out why I couldn't share folders and my subnet mask was 255.255.0.0 instead of 255.255.255.0. I'm not sure how that happened. But once that was corrected, it worked. Then, make sure in your firewall you give access to share files across each computer by listing the ip's of each computer. In Norton, I have to tell the firewall my individual IP's that are safe for sharing files. Then, once all that is done, go to "My Network Places". Then on right hand side, click on Workgroup Computers. You should be able to see all the computers that belong to that workgroup. If you don't, try pinging the computer. Open command prompt. type "ping computername" when computername is the name of the computer. If it can't be pinged, then either it doesn't belong in the same workgroup or firewall is blocking it still, or you got your subnet mask wrong. Hope that helps. Oh yeah, once all that is done, you can map a network drive. Basically, all that means is you are assigning a drive letter to you host's software folder. You don't need ip to map, you actually need to know the network path to map. For example, if your are sharing your host folder called D:\Software as "Software" and your host computername is "MyPC", then the network path is "\\MyPC\Software". If you are sharing E:\Programs as "Programz" on computer MyComputer, then "\\MyComputer\Programz". Mapping makes it easier to connect to your shared resource by giving it a drive letter so in explorer, you don't have to type \\MyComputer\programz. You can simply type the drive letter that you assigned it.

Thanks for help. I found the updates in the registry key. Also very helpful was Belarc advisor which told me which updates I was missing. Thanks.

I created an nLited XP CD with post-sp2 updates. I lost track of which updates are on the CD. How can I tell which updates are installed on the CD source? I particularly want to know if KB922120 is integrated on the install source. Also, after I install, is there any way of knowing which updates had been integrated? Thanks.

I'm going out on a limb by defending Norton Antivirus (I'm using Norton Internet Security 2007), but I only want to say - the best AV is what you feel comfortable with. I used to have Comodo AV and Firewall and I got infected with a virus that infected ctfmon.exe and a virus called copy.exe. I was not able to remove this virus with Comodo. Got rid of it with Norton, however. From experience, I haven't had a problem with viruses with NIS 2007 (and long ago, I never had a problem with NIS 2005). As far as resources go, may be Norton may slow down your system (I'm not sure if it's slowing down mine or not - it's fast enough that I'm not noticing a great difference), but it's okay. Basically, you can read and read and read all the reviews and there is NO, NO perfect one out there. You just have to say, okay this one will do for me. At some point, you just have to say, "This is what I've decided and I'm not letting others' opinions influence my choice."

You can record a macro. I don't use outlook so I don't know if Outlook 2007 has a feature to record but I know Excel and Word both have a record feature. Even if you don't know how to write a macro, you can record it, then see how VBA works and you can learn to do some custom editing after recording. Play around outlook and see if you find a record. then record your actions.

write or record a macro that does that. then create a button for it. as far as i know, outlook 2007 does not have the ribbon interface so it shouldn't be that hard to assign a button the macro action.

PuntoMX, if I said my new system is slower than the old, I didn't mean that. My newer system is faster than the old one. Although the hard drive read and copy speeds are probably are similar in both computers. About the SM Bus driver, I did download and install it. But that is what causes the problem -- my USB stops working. I tried it twice with a clean install and mouse and keyboard stop working. I can't remember if unplugging and replugging the usb of mouse and keyboard worked or not, it's been quite some time. But it became annoying enough that I ignore it in device manager. Why would the SM bus driver not install is my freaking question? The drive should be on the MOBO CD but it's not. I shouldn't have to download only this driver from the web while the rest of the chipset drivers are included.

If you're having the problem of nothing happening, are you sure your wimfltr service is started? Try the following before trying to capture in command prompt: net start wimfltr This will start the wimfltr service necessary for imagex.

This has been thoroughly covered here: http://www.911cd.net/forums//index.php?sho...=18971&st=0 It also includes batch scripts. But it always makes more sense when you figure it out on your own.

It's called "Link to Previous Section" and hence, it requires Sections be created in your document. Are you sure you have your front page and content pages sectioned off. If not, you need to insert section breaks in your document to be able to use the Link to Previous section button.

I haven't come across that, but when font size changes, it may be due to font substitution when the same font is not installed in both computers. The font size may change if you have "autofit" enabled in Powerpoint - it will enlarge or shrink the font depending on whether it fits in the windows or not. Thus, check your fonts and make sure both have the same VERSION installed.

Yes. Right click on toolbar and select the Mail Merge toolbar to display the mail merge toolbar. Then click on the first button of the toolbar (the tooltip should say Main Document setup). Then select "Envelope". You should see a dialog to select the size of the envelope. After that, you should know what to do. Alternative solution you may want to think about is printing your addresses on labels, then sticking them on the envelopes. This might be better that printing directly on envelopes.

All good things come to an end some time. If it's not the end, it's certainly at crawling speed now. It was fun though!!

Imagex is totally different than Ghost. I once tried to recover an imagex image to a partition that already had an installation and it did not format the previous installation. Reason is imagex is file based. Ghost, I believe, is sector based. Thus, when restoring an imagex image, you are restoring the file structure and the previous file structure remains intact. Therefore, when I restored my image, all the programs I had installed remained intact but the registry files were overwritten. Therefore, it seemed as though I still had programs installed, like MS Office. But when I tried to run Word, it would not run because registry values were missing. Makes sense?

Glad to know my suspicion about fonts led you to the remedy.

Hummm, I think the exact same font is not installed in both XP and Vista. Copy all 4 Estrangelo fonts from XP (the regular, italic, bold, and bold italic). Then install it in Vista. Then try it again.

This is a double post! You've already posted this question is the correct forum. No need to post again here.

As long as the font size is the same, it should not make a difference on the formatting. The difference you probably see is most likely due to the zoom of the page you are viewing. Are you sure you are viewing both machines at the same zoom size - meaning, 100% or both or is one at 100% and the other at 120%?

Integrate (or slipstream)!

Yup, there are two way as mentioned above. 1) Create your own identity and use a password. This will allow you to password protect your OE account. 2) Create a user profile. This is probably better since you can protect your OE account with a login password rather than an identity password, and with profile password, you can protect your documents in My Documents folder.

Instead of restoring the Vista bootloader, it'll probably be easier to use a grub4floppy disk (do you have a floppy drive?) to boot Vista using a round-about way. Basically, instead of loading vista using the bootloader, you get Grub4Dos to call bootmgr. Download grub4dose and make a boot floppy. Then modify your menu.lst to include: # Sets colors, timeout before default selected and default value color black/cyan yellow/cyan timeout 5 default 0 # Boot Vista by finding and loading bootmgr title Microsoft Windows Vista find --set-root /bootmgr chainloader /bootmgr This will load Vista without relying on Vista's bootloader.