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Wireless Connection problem - constant drop outs (Intel Pro 3945ABG wireless NIC)

huey85 — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 17:53:15 GMT

Hi guys I recently purchased a new HP Pavilion laptop which came with Vista Home Premium and I have been having constant drop outs and connection problems with my laptop and wireless billion modem/router (BIPAC-743GE). My connection strength is never above 60% - Always on Good connection, never goes up to Very Good or Excellent - my old Laptop which had Windows XP always had Very Good and Excellent connections. It also never had drop outs.

What I mean by 'drop outs', is that after a period of time being connected to the modem/router, my laptop will disconnect (not entirely) from the modem/router and I end up with a Limited Connection (Local Only). This happens after being connected for only 2 hours or so *the time varies every now and then* When I try to disconnect from the modem/router and try to reconnect, my laptop cannot find any wireless connections until I actually restart the laptop. Also, I am using the HP Wireless Assistant which came preinstalled.

Note: none of the other 2 computers (running XP) on the network that are using the same wireless/modem router - 1 is wired connection and the other one is wireless - drop out of have poor connections.

All of my drivers are up to date, I have disabled IPv6 and have manually configured my IP, Gateway and DNS settings in IPv4.

Would anyone have any clue what is up with this? Any help at all would be greatly appreciated, thanks in advance.

Very, very slow Networking with Vista

indie1982 — Wed, 09 Aug 2006 05:53:59 GMT

Hi everyone, I'm running build 5384 on a Dell Precision 370 and a Precision 380. I've tried 64 and 32bit versions but I keep having the following problem:

Basically I can access the internet but very, very slowly. Most pages just time out.

The machines both have Broadcom NetXtreme 57xx Gigabit NIC's connected to Dell Powerconnect Gigabit switches. I've tried Manual IP config and DHCP but I can't get a reasonable speed through via ethernet!

There's nothing wrong with the network, I've got hundreds of XP 32bit and x64 clients connected to the same network and they can all access the Internet fine.

I can ping other clients on the netowork from the Vista machines and I get <1ms Ping times, there's nothing wrong with DNS or gateways etc. I just have a feeling this is a NIC or software issue. I've got no other NIC's a can try with the machines either.

It's not a problem with our ISP as the slow ethernet connection is also happening whilst trying to transfer files internally across the network. I've tried changing port on the switch, i've even tried another manufacturer's switch which didn't help! I've replaced network cables also.

I can't even get either of the machines to connect to Windows Update, it just times out!

Any ideas anyone?

[SOLVED]Vista Cannot See XP In Network

Codyksp — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 06:46:16 GMT

Hello,

I have a PC with Windows Vista Ultimate and one with Windows XP Home SP2. I have been trying to share the printer that is connected to the XP computer.

My XP computer can see itsself and all the files/printers as well as Vista and all of it's files/printers in My Network Places, but the XP computer does not appear in Network on Vista (it does appear in the network map).

I have tried connecting by using \\pc name (in run) and \\pc name\printer name (in add new printer wizard) but it doesn't find anything on Vista, on XP it works fine.

I can also ping to both computers by computer name or IP. I have no firewall other than Windows Firewall, and both PC's have AVG Antivirus and Windows Defender. I have a router as well.

I have also installed the LLTDR on XP and enabled NetBIOS over TCP/IP on both computers (this allowed me to reach Vista from XP).

I was also wondering what this is, it only seems to appear in network on my Vista computer. The other 2 are this PC and my router, as you can see the XP computer does not show up.

The reason the printer shows up on both PC's is because it is installed on both although I guess it doesn't have to be shared on Vista since I can't keep it up here. (I still had to print somehow)

[url]http://img126.imageshack.us/img126/5594/30380819gt7.png[/url] - Vista Network
[url]http://img514.imageshack.us/img514/8154/94457857fq4.png[/url] - Vista Network Map

[url]http://img169.imageshack.us/img169/172/11530606zx4.png[/url] - XP My Network Places
[url]http://img401.imageshack.us/img401/5874/92269835jr9.png[/url] - XP computer in My Network Places
[url]http://img178.imageshack.us/img178/3290/64092009xo6.png[/url] - Vista computer in My Network Places

[url]http://img401.imageshack.us/img401/5591/47581340zm2.png[/url] - The screenshots from XP (which I put into the public shared folder on Vista, and they arrived perfectly)

Internet Connection issues with Vista 64 Ultimate

Kwanjie — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 14:31:30 GMT

Hello Guys,

I've been having some issues with my internet connection over the past couple of days. here are the symptoms:

Internet Explorer doesn't load websites properly, it partially loads the sites and display some images with "x" in it
Internet Explorer gives me the following errors when it can't load the URL

"The address is not valid" and shows http:/// in the URL Bar
"Internet Explorer cannot display the webpage" if I hit refresh a few times the page then loads properly.
Sometimes when the pages don't load, it directs me to the "ask.com" search page with the site I'm trying to reach being searched.
Websites struggles to load at times and I have to refresh a few times to have it load

When I download files using "FlashGet" it stutters and pauses at times and it freezes at 97% completion, I then have to pause and restart the download to complete the download.

These symptoms started a couple days ago and I havent installed or tampered with anything so I'm stumped.

I did the following to try and resolve the issue:

Checked to see if the "host" file was tampered with - Nope
Ran HiJackThis and it didn't show anything out of the ordinary
used CCleaner to remove all cache files from IE7
Checked my router and it didnt seem to be an router issue as my 3 other computers are running fine free of any conection issues.
Upgraded the router firmware - no result

Thank you everyone for taking a look and trying to help me resolve this issue.

Cheers!

Eddie

XP machine can't see Vista machine

bobc4d — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 19:42:30 GMT

I beaten my head against the wall for two days trying to get this sorted out.

I have a machine with Vista running Live OneCare and Windows Defender, the other machine has XP with Windows XP firewall and AVG antivirus.

I can ping the XP machine form the Vista machine and I can see all the public folders on the XP machine.

I can not ping the Vista machine from the XP machine and I can not see any public folders or the printer on the Vista machine.

I changed all the settings I can on Live OneCare to make it as less secure as possible but without any help, I still couldn't see the Vista machine from the XP machine.

both machines connect through a Linksys firewall/router and each is able to connect to the internet. The machine with Vista did have XP on it before the upgrade and I had no problems with networking the two, so I can pretty much eliminate the router as the problem.

I have ensured that they are both in the same workgroup.

thanks,

bob

Typing delayed & sluggish in IE7

RASsDAD — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 18:37:38 GMT

My daughter's laptop came installed with Vista home basic & IE7. Web surfing & downloading is as fast as expected but typing a web address in the address bar or in a search engine (ie google) is delayed and sluggish. One character is displayed about every 2 seconds or nothing is displayed for about 20 seconds and then all of the address or search info is displayed all at once. We have tried WIFI & land lines on multiple networks that have proven their ability on other computers. I have tried turning off all add-ons, deleting temp internet files & cookies, defragging the hard drive, performing a full up-to-date Norton scan (no viruses found), and downloading all available/applicable updates. Nothing has helped. Is this a known issue with an easy remedy that I've overlooked? I've spent hours searching the web (on a fully functional XP IE6 laptop) for an answer and have only run across one other similar topic but it didn't award me with a resolution. Please help...she's driving me crazy wanting a fix. Thanks.
Jerry

[SOLVED]Loose Internet connection after restoring from sleep mode

Deebees — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 08:46:53 GMT

I wonder if anyone can help me regarding this problem. Incidentally I have read and tried the suggestions on the sticky on sleep mode problems but I feel this does not match my problem.

I have the computer booted and then I can connect to the internet OK when I leave the computer and put it into sleep mode this works OK, however when I return and wake it up I cannot get an Internet or email connection and the only way is to restart the system. Can anybody give me any ideas?

David

Vista wireless LAN & WAN very slow

GregDude — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 20:03:41 GMT

On of my Vista PCs on my home network has a wireless NIC. It connects to the wireless router without problem and shows 'excellent' signal strength. It's speed however is terrible. It transfers data at about 16kbps and this tends to slow down over time. It is so slow, many network actions timeout. I just copied a 35mb file and it took over 45mins to copy between 2 Vista PCs over wireless LAN.

Internet is the same. Web pages appear, then very slowly populate. The last items can take many minutes to appear. A FTP download may start at 10-20kbps then wind down to bytes per second.

Connecting with wired cable via the onboard NIC to the same router works with full speed.(I have to physically move the PC to perform this test, or I'd just stick with wire.) I have another WinXP PC connected wirelessly also, which works fine.

System:
OS: Vista 32 SP1
RAM: 2GB
NIC: Asus WL-138G-V2 802.11b/g+54Mbps, PCI, 2.4GHz, WMM, ExAntenna
Video: nVidia Geforce 7800GTX
Monitor: Benq 22" LCD something
Mouse: MS Explorer mouse (wired)
Router: NetGear WGR 614 rev 7

So far I have tried all kinds of reported solutions:

* Disable AutoTuningLevel
* Patch 931770
* Vista SP1 beta
* Disable Indexing
* Disable remote diff
* Disable firewall (temporarily, and check for other software conflict)
* Disable other NIC
* Replaced Router + WAP with new Wireless Router
* Removed G7 mouse (uses similar RF as network)
* Disconnected other PCs on LAN

Nothing has made an improvement so far.

Please help if you can. Everything 'works', just real slow.

Vista Download/Chat/IM Client Problem

Traven282 — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 18:47:33 GMT

I recently bought a new Gateway PC that comes with Vista Home Premium x32 from Best Buy, but seem to be having some problems with my internet on everything. I go to Voodoo chats and use Yahoo Instant Messenger, as well as download files (like most everyone on the net). Browsing the net seems to work fine, but large lag spikes come in on occasion. No big deal, but it freezes up all the Voodoo chat's messaging, as well as the IM service. On top of that, my downloads freeze up too-- making me restart them completely. Even Youtube videos stop buffering at random times. This happens on both IE and FireFox.

I thought it may have been a problem with my DSL ISP, but a few calls with them and a test or two proved otherwise. Windows doesn't seem to find a problem either, and the laptop running XP up front works just fine too. Is it my PC, or have other people ran into this problem as well?

PC Specs:

Gateway FX7020 - AMD Phenom(tm) 9600 Quad-Core Processor 2.30 GHz - 3G RAM + 4 Ready-Boost - Vista Home Pre. 32 bit

VisionNet ADSL2 + Single Port Ethernet Modem

Last resort before taking PC in for Geek Squad to look at. :/

Vista computer has slow Internet Explorer speed!

cap2587 — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 06:17:06 GMT

I have a Dell Inspiron E531 computer. The computer is good, but for some reason the Internet browsing is slow. I have a cable connection with comcast. I previosly owned a dell laptop that had Windows XP. With this computer my Internet speed was so much faster. When I try and browse something with my desktop (Vista) I have to wait so long before that damn round circle stops spinning. Is there a good article you recommend or tips for speeding up IE speed. I increased my connections # through the registry, do regular maintenance (disk clean-up, defreg), disabled RDC. Thanks.

recovery system

focus01 — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 16:08:20 GMT

hi,

my son decided to do a full recovery of his hp530 laptop for some reason and all seemed to go well but for one small proberlem, he cannot access the internet connection unless he uses the routers dongle which works alright.

laptop hp 530

vista home basic

router dynamode+dongle

virgin cable b/b

i will be gratefull for any help,thank in advance

[SOLVED]Windows vista connection problem

streetvandals41 — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 23:27:16 GMT

why do i have problem with mybrowser when iam connected to the internet? for instance i connected my laptop using wireless and tried to surf the net but it says no connectivity. but ican onlinewith MSN. is this vista gltches or something?can someone help?

BEFORE POSTING READ! Guide: Connecting/Sharing on a network with Vista

Jason — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 18:14:08 GMT

Out of the box Vista is locked down to prevent intrusions and virus's for the beginner user. More advanced users tend to want more flexibility between their computers and the network they reside on. If you are having trouble sharing printers or file sharing this is the place.

Here are some things to change and check to get vista talking to other xp machines:

Right Click Computer > Change Settings > Click Advanced Settings on the left And make sure your Vista machine is on the same workgroup as the XP machines.
Navigate to Control Panel > Network and Internet. You are going to need to change the network type to Private from Public, you can tell which your computer is set to by looking to the right To the right of the network name and location type, click Customize. In the Set Network Location dialog box, click Private, and then click Next.
Now Vista knows your network is secure and will allow connections to other machines.
In the same Network and Internet settings panel make sure to turn on File Sharing/Network Discovery/Public Folder Sharing/Printer Sharing. You may also turn on Password Protected Sharing which will force any pc trying to connect to login with one of the administrator credentials on the Vista machine.

Reboot and give it a try! If you still cannot connect from the XP machine. Make sure the XP machine is on the same work group using the similiar method listed above, and Turn off ANY firewall Microsoft or third party, on both XP and Vista . Just remember to re-enable firewalls afterwards.

Keep losing Internet connection

dcanoli — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 07:36:37 GMT

I just bought a new HP in January.

Couldn't get connected to the internet. Heard this might be a Vista problem...

Finally got it connected (magically--not really sure what I did or what happened)....stayed on for quite a while (a few months).

Now, it goes on and off sparadically, and I'm not sure why. Right now, I am on my Dell which is wireless on a desk next to the HP w/vista.

This PC has XP on it.

I had connection until about 2 a.m. last night, and then, it went off. Sometimes, I can get it to "reboot" by unplugging and replugging the router, but I can't get that "fix" to work this morning. I've tried it over and over.

In a desperate attempt to find a solution, I stumbled across this website.

I see there is a pinned thread....I will try what I understand from that thread, but I don't really understand all the jargon on it.

Any ideas or help? This is so frustrating!!!

Forward Traffic between 2 NICs

Wolfgang — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 06:07:57 GMT

On Vista, how to forward traffic from a NIC to another NIC both installed on same machine?

For example, I have a machine running Vista and has one DVB-S PCI card and one Ethernet PCI card. The DVB-S card is to provide 1-Way Internet via satellite link. The Ethernet card will be used as a return channel for the satellite link and its connected to a LAN which in turn connected to an ISP differ from the ISP of satellite link.

Sharing my intenet connection...

ncinsguy — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 11:52:08 GMT

this is my basic setups:
machine #1: gateway e4300, pci netgear wireless n adapter shared, onboard lan 10/100/1000 marvell. the onboard card is connected to a router that i have set up in switch mode.
machine #2: HP Slimline Pavilion, Netgear USB wireless n adapter shared, onboard lan 10/100, the onboard card is connected to a switch.

these two systems used to work fine sharing my internet connection to the switch and to the devices connected it to them, an xbox 360, hd-dvd player X 2, dish 622. now these devices cannot connect to the internet anymore through the switch. i haven't changed any settings on the machines it just stopped working on both systems. i didn't notice until my dish reciever told me to reconnect to the internet so i won't get charged the dvr fee. i've gone through all the steps available that i'm aware of in the network page and nothing works. the lan connection shows up but it will not connect to the internet it says "local only". the 360 is seen by other pc on the network when it's on but can't go out to the internet. i connected the switch to an XP laptop sharing a wireless card's connection and all the devices connected to the internet through the laptop. the gateway has been updated to sp1 the hp has not and the problem started before i was even aware it was available. i rolled back the driver on the gateway's lan card and it didn't help. on the gateway there were two updates installed for the onboard lan one in october and the other in january. i couldn't find them in the list to un-install so i don't know if that could be the problem on the gateway, i haven't investigated on the hp yet. can anyone please help i need to get this back working cause dish charges me to not have their reciever connected to the internet and i wanna do some online gaming occaisonally.

Vista Wireless Lag Spikes Using D-Link

xVersace — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 11:45:16 GMT

Hi, i get constant lag spikes with my wireless internet every 30-90 seconds where my ping goes from 1ms up to 3000ms, this makes online gaming almost impossible or very stressful please help. I think this is a well known problem, ive been searching on the internet for a remedy regarding this problem for some time now but i have yet to find any, ive tried the Vista Anti Lag program and the WLAN Optimizer but neither of them are working for me. I am currently using a D-Link Di-524 Wireless Router and a D-Link WUA-1340 Wireless adapter on my desktop. If anyone out there knows what i should do please reply thanks alot, and if you need more info about my computer or anything to help fix the problem just let me know thank you =D.

Slow Internet connection from Links

Deebees — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 03:01:53 GMT

In the main my internet connections are OK however I have one small problem. I am at present running Windows Vista Premium SP1 and my computer is a Dell XPS 420 I have a Netgear Router/Modem DG834 v3 with all the updates. The problem is that when I open a programme for example Icon Packager and then wish to go to the website to have a look I click on the link it takes a long time to connect and if I get fed up waiting and try to close it nothing happens and it appears to freeze. I then have to wait until it decides to close it down. This also happens on other programmes.

This does not seem right to me and I did not experience this problem on XP and wonder if anyone has any suggestions on how I can overcome this?

David

Internet problem

mustang2000 — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 15:39:09 GMT

Been having a strange problem in the past week or so. When on google or yahoo, ill search for something, click a website then a page comes up with, http://results.yahoo.com/ a continue button then automatically loads a wrong webpage.

I did a virus scan, found nothing. Any ideas, its getting annoying.

Can't upload anything to anywhere with any browser

Angel Incognito — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 16:11:11 GMT

Nothing like taking the financial leap to buy a new laptop then to be on it surfing the 'net and trying to upload stuff to absolutely any website or send an attachment to an email and getting all kinds of errors.

It's not IE because I tried Firefox. I tried running IE as an administrator. I tried banging my head on my keyboard.... ;)

...nada....

Seriously -- why can't I upload anything? What can I do to fix it??

Thanks!

Local permissions on a domain problems!

PL1016 — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 09:57:31 GMT

I have a couple of computers that i had to replace on our nt domain, which i swapped out for new units with vista ult 32-bit and joined our local domain. The problem i am having is that vista is reseting the desktop and mapped drives every time a regular user logs off. My administrative account is fine and doesn't have this problem, but i can't have everyone logging on as administrators. Im just stumped on this one.... any thoughts?

Internet Connection plus USB Printer Problem

taya74 — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 00:14:19 GMT

I have a Dimension E520 Dell Desktop with Wireless broadband router which worked perfectly up to 3 months ago. My email and Internet will suddenly stop working (every 2 days), whether at the time I am surfing the net or have been away from my desk for a while. But I can still ping, it still tells me I am still connected etc etc, I have tried different browsers, FTP Programs etc but won't work. I have also just noticed my printer which is directly connected to my computer by USB also doesn't work when I can't connect to the internet.

The only way to fix it is to restart my computer.

I also have a laptop, when I have this problem on my desktop, I can still connect to the internet on that plus see my Desktop in the Network Neighbourhood but not the other way around.

I have tried the following (I have probably forgotten a few):

Resetting my modem, leaving it or my computer off at night.
Reinstalling my modem drivers
Using my old broadband (non-wireless) modem which is connected to my computer with the blue cord
Updating my BIOS drivers
Updating my Intel 82562V 10/100 Platform drivers (since updating various drivers I now have the problem once a day instead of once every 2nd day - don't know if this means anything)
My power management is on the Maximum Power one
Disabling Auto-Tuning
Uninstalled my Anti-Virus (CA)
I reinstalled the Vista files (not formatted though)
Clicked the Diagnose and Repair button

A TCP/IP address is obtained automatically and the DNS is Automatic from ISP. I have WPA2 security and password protected.

I thought the fact my printer also doesn't work at this time as well (it is connected via USB cable) might narrow the problem down a bit??

[SOLVED]Certain websites not displaying correctly in Vista x64

arlab — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 14:52:20 GMT

This problem happens in all browsers.
I can't see Adbrite ads, for example. And some websites don't display correctly.

Here's how my website displays Statcounter:

[URL=http://imageshack.us][IMG]http://img523.imageshack.us/img523/7057/statcounterfh5.gif[/IMG][/URL]
[URL=http://g.imageshack.us/g.php?h=523&i=statcounterfh5.gif][IMG]http://img523.imageshack.us/img523/7057/statcounterfh5.4fbdcb976b.jpg[/IMG][/URL]

To see how it should be displayed visit [url="http://statcounter.com"]http://statcounter.com[/url].

I have Flash Player installed, so that shouldn't be the problem. I also have Java 32 bits SE installed... Anyone knows what could be wrong?

Thanks.

[SOLVED]very slow internet after installing vista

manowar — Mon, 07 May 2007 11:04:07 GMT

my router is zyxel 660 connected through etherrnet on netgear adapter (i also have a realtek onboard one)

im having really slow down and up speed and i dont know y

the problem remains in both cards (netgear have some beta drivers that didnt hel,realtek has no available ones ,only the microsoft's ones)

my other pc on xp with the same router has no problems

please help me because it is a really anoying issue

[SOLVED]Media Connect Issue

ethan_bennett — Sun, 04 Nov 2007 00:18:11 GMT

Ok, so I encountered this problem trying to connect my Xbox 360 as a media center extender. I was in Media Center trying to find the extender, and it found it, but kept coming back with errors about it not being able to configure it. I go to my network button, and boom, there it is, along with all my other computers. I click on "Open Media Sharing," and it won't let me, says "Media sharing is currently disabled, either because the sharing service is not running or your firewall settings have changed. To restart sharing, you must first comfirm your sharing settings."

So I click OK.

Pops me into the Media Sharing window. I check the boxes labeled "Find Media that others are Sharing" and "Share my media"

I click settings and configure what I want it to share.

There's an "i" however, saying that "Sharing is disabled because a network connection was not found. Check your network connection settings."

I click the "Network..." button next to it.

Says I'm on a network. NetworkDiscovery is on. File Sharing is on. Public folder Sharing is on. Printer Sharing is off, because I don't have one. Password Protected Sharing is on. Media Sharing is on. I'm on a Private network. It says I have both local and Internet access on my Local Area Connection. My Firewall is on. I checked to make sure it's allowing the media extender and media sharing applications, it was.

I close the box, and it still says I have no network found. I continue anyway. UAC prompts me to continue, I do. It asks me what devices It'd like me to share my media to. I make sure all of them are allowed, of which the Xbox is one of them. It's still offering me the fact that I don't have a network connection, even though, again, I verify all the information above.

Click OK, and it now populates my PC into the network box. I clicked "open media sharing" on it, and it pops back up thatMedia Sharing isdisabled. I've followed this loopseveral times now. Changing my network from private to public and back. disabling and renabling firewalls, both at the same time. Turning off and on different features like UAC, file sharing, passwords, etc. all to no avail.

What Am I missing?

Hardware:MSI P6NSli-Fi (nForce650i) Core 2 Duo E6400, X1800XT, 2GB RAM, Creative X-Fi. Network: Belkin Wireless 54g Router (UPnP enabled, Firewall Disabled) Gateway Gigabit Switch (My desktop ison theswitch,which is a subnet of therouter. The Xbox is in the router directly), and use an Actiontec DSL modem.

Problem with WLAN Autoconfig

Elprusio — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 05:50:18 GMT

Hi,

I have no wireless network connection because my WLAN autoconfig won't start up.
When i go to my services and start my WLAN Autoconfig , i get the following message:

[b]Error 3 : The system cannot find the path specified[/b]

Can i reinstall this service ?
How can i solve this problem ?

Vista Business is running on my new Dell Vostro 1700 Laptop.

thanks.
gr Hans

Public Folder & Network Not Accessible

johnmont — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 09:33:10 GMT

Okay, I am pretty computer savvy, but I am stuck...I have 2 vista machines, 1 is in spanish the other in english, but I am bilingual so no probs. Set up my wireless network, did all the appropriate file sharing things, etc...now my spanish laptop will see the other laptop but can't access it in any way. The english laptop will see, access and read the public and media sharing files, but cannot access the \\johnmont\public, and it reads ...is not accessible. you might not have permission to use this network resource. contact administrator..yadahyadah. windows cannot find the network path...

so i tried to go to network and go to properties of the public folder, and it will not let me change anything, and the name portion of it, as well as the share button are not accessible either...so permissions and such are out of the question too...

so here I am stuck with being able to read another computer's public folder and windows media share folder and not being able to read or share my own. My media sharing icon is not accesible from the other computer, but I can see it on my own, very weird, but when I enable media sharing, my folder shows up on the spanish laptop as "unknown user"

any thoughts? I am about to reformat the whole damn thing...thanks.

Proxy server

bobinspfld — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 10:09:43 GMT

I have one desk top computer running Vista Home Premium and using a dial-up connection to my ISP. When I go to Internet Options, under Connections I find that the Proxy server is checked. Since I do not need a proxy server I un-check the proxy server selections thinking that will do it. But when I first power up the next day the proxy server selections are again checked.

Could my ISP be setting these?

Since I'm very concerned about download speed does having the proxy server selections checked affect my speed?

Thanks in advance for your help!

Dashboard module has stopped working

beatsme — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 15:36:06 GMT

"Dashboard module has stopped working"

This popup warning has just started to appear and I'm at a loss as to what it means or how to correct it. It started right after I installed itunes. I have since uninstalled itunes and tried a system recovery to a date just before itunes was installed but it still persist to popup. My laptop is about a month old with Vista Home Premium. Any ideas.

Found it. My dsl provider is SBC and it added some yahoo programs to my startup menu. I found the "Dashboard Module" and simply disabled it. I think the popups started appearing because I removed a yahoo program that I never use.

TORRENT/online games issues (not for illegal activity)

Clark_Kent — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 21:44:04 GMT

Hi all,

Hopefully you can help me out with a problem that has been bugging me. Everything with my Vista/internet has been fine, except for one major issue. Everytime I use a Torrent based client/or connect to a online game I get the BSOD then windows reloads.

I use p2p programmes such as Limewire and MiRc, but it's only the torrent and online games where the problems appear. From the BSOD I got no code (from what I can read in the split secound its on screen) only IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL, everything works fine after the reboot -- until I reopen the Torrent programme or the online game. The strangest part is there is no set time scale as to when the system would reboot -- it could be 5mins or anything upto an hour.

I'm not a computer expert... but I have checked all the things that I think it could ahve been... such as programme based, or firewall based... but still nothing.

any help will be appreciated... as this is really puzzling to me. I need to use torrents to transfer large files (work based) so really do need to get this fixed.

CK

Vista machine "can't access printer" on XP network

sf44 — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 14:15:23 GMT

For a couple of years we've been running a wireless home network using several XP machines. One of these drives a LaserJet 4250 via LPT1. Our other XP machines can use the LaserJet with no problems.

We recently added a Toshiba Satellite running Vista. It *does* network, at least is able to transfer files wirelessly, and to read the Shared Docs folder on the XP computers. (The XP computers can read the Vista computer's Public folders as well.) And the Vista machine *shows* the shared LJ printer in its printer list. But when we try to print to the LJ we get an error msg saying "Windows cannot connect to the printer--access denied."

I've installed the Link-level update on the XP machine, but no help. Have installed the latest HP "Universal Driver" on both the XP and Vista machines--no help. And have tried 20-odd combinations of "Add printer" installs suggested on various forums--local and network, using existing or new ports. Firewalls are standard Windoze, with all printer and file sharing enabled, on both machines.

Because the other XP machines have been able to wirelessly use the LJet I'm pretty confident that validates the XP end. I'm much less confident about the Vista end, and given the number of no-works and crashes reported in all the Vista forums I suspect there's some hidden setting in Vista that I just haven't heard about.

Anyone have a similar problem? Any ideas on a fix?

Vista and XP networking problems, including shared printer

ski-nazi — Sat, 29 Sep 2007 11:21:44 GMT

I checked out many forums and seen many others with the same or similar problems. I tried all the suggested solutions with no results.

I have a home network with 3 XP computers and a Vista laptop (Lenovo x60) running Vista Business. The network using both wired and wireless connections. I installed a NAS (Maxtor Shared Storage 2), and had to change the workgroup name (since the Maxtor could not handle the "@") character.

After I changed the workgroup name on all computer, the vista cannot find my shared printer, neither any of the other computers on my network. The XP machines do not see the vista either.

I have internet access from the vista, but cannot print or do backup to the NAS.

So far I tried:
disabled all firewalls, (I have the vista built in as well as the Norton Internet security),
changed the set up on the Norton to allow all in/out traffic
downloaded and installed the WindowsXP-KB922120-v5-x86-ENU.exe and installed it (allow the XP to respond to vista network discovery)
Tried to add the printer to the vista as a local port "//computer name/printer name"

called IBM tech support: THEY DO NOT SUPPORT NETWORKING ISSUES !!! (if the laptop works by itself you are on your own!)

I would greatly appreciate any support, ideas!!

vista can't connect to microsoft sites/mozilla/hotmail

dundy1122 — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 20:29:46 GMT

I have a new laptop with vista 6.0 and it has the issue that I'm unable to connect to hotmail or any other

microsoft site for that matter. Sometimes around 5pm it works, its really weird. I also have problem with mozilla or to login

into my yahoo mail account. I unistalled Norton and it didn't change.

I'm sorry if I'm in the wrong topic.

Anyways, any help is appreciated

Thanks

Andy

Vista Internet Problem

Jrod2050 — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 12:35:22 GMT

Let me start off by stating that i have a Dell Inspiron 530 with Vista Home Premium
Just ask for extra info.

Now I have come across a rather odd problem with connecting to the internet. I have a LAN and WLAN as resources and i never use the LAN i just use WLAN. Internet connectivity has been very good for the past few months, but now it seems that i cannot connect to the internet. Every program i use says there is no internet connection, but yet when i check the properties of the LAN it is sending and receiving a lot of packets, but the WLAN is not. I use Mozilla Firefox 2 and even uninstalled it and installed Beta 3 and used internet explorer and it does not work. I have tried everything i could think of. Any suggestions?

Oh yeah, and the only thing that seems to make the internet work again is system restore.

Can't add domain account to local folder permissions

id10t — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 11:04:03 GMT

Hello all,

I keep running into this problem on my vista business machines. I will try to add a domain account to a local folders security list and when I hit check name it will tell me that it can't find that user. When I hit advanced it tells me that "The server is not operational". All my DNS settings are good, the time on my machines and the DC server is the same. Im running out of ideas, and I think there is a tear welling up as we speak.

Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

[SOLVED]Some websites don't work

Mikea08 — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 12:35:16 GMT

For some reason some sites just stopped working on my laptop. They used to work and still do on my other computer. My internet connection is fine. Other sites and IM work great. It's probably about 1/4 of all websites. Some particular ones that don't work are mail.com and ign.com. These sites don't work on both firefox and IE. If anyone can help, it would be greatly appreciated.

download problem!

lyny1191 — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 09:13:15 GMT

[font=Comic Sans MS][b]hi
recently i upgraded to vista and since then i haven't been able to download .rar files, ive tried various download managers and the same thing happens in all, whenever i try to download a .rar file , itll download as a 5.1 mb file, when really its a 100mb (for example) i can download any other file types, i was wondering if anyone had experienced the same problem or knows how to fix it , any help is much appreciated.
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Connecting Vista to Windows CE

PeterG — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 15:09:29 GMT

I am a service engineer and we use machines running Windows CE
these machine do not publish themselves on the network in Windowx XP you have to search for the Computer before you can connect to it.

I have been trying to connect my new Laptop running Vista to one of our machines but there does not seem to be a search for other computers function

Can anybody shed any light on this problem.

I did have a problem connecting to the office network but after removing Norton internet Security and installing CA internet security every thing there was fine.

regards

PeterG

Set Network Location/ Customize Network

noeluylee — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 00:41:44 GMT

Hi,

I need a little help here. Whenever I connect to the internet via dial up or DSL, my network profile adding a number (number of connectrions?) eg. Network, Network 1, Network 2, Network 3, Network 4 and so forth, and it can be deleted and even can merge at Set Network Location / Customize Network Settings. However, I dont want the hassle of going into and delete or merge connections. Can I disable this?

Please advice.

Thanks

public or private location

eustache — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 00:12:21 GMT

i would like to know what type of network settings is appropriate for my network location, private or public ? i'm am using a broadband connection for my notebook at home..