connection issues

I have been attempting to set up my windows xp machine to share the internet connection from my windows 7 machine for most of the evening. I have created a new Lan connection on each and told the lan connection on the Windows 7 machine to share the wireless connection connected to my modem. It...

Help ! I have an old iBook wired to a router and a new PC linking wirelessly to same router. On the Mac I have 'seen' the PC but not been able to connect to it. On the PC, the Network and Sharing Centre lists 'IBOOK'. When I click on this, 'Windows Security' asks me to 'Enter Network...

i like to play these online mmorpgs, and i even called tech support and everything and i been through 3-4 usb wireless internet there all 300n and i keep getting disconnected when i play mmorpgs. what is causing these disconnects i am out of clues of what is going on. i got clueless tech support...

I know this has been posted about before, but I've read through all the old threads about this and just can't find any solution that has worked for me. Whenever a computer with windows 7 tries to connect wireless to my router it will be connected, but have no internet access, and will be...

I installed Windows 7 Ultimate on a 32 bit PC and I am trying to set up the ODBC drivers to use with Crystal Reports XI, SP6. I had CR running on my old XP machine, and have made the ODBC settings EXACTLY the same on both PCs. When I click 'Apply & Test Connection' in the ODBC Driver Setup...

Hello, I am working from home with remote desktop. My home laptop is Windows 7. My work uses XP. I noticed on my home network that I was able to watch youtube videos through my local remote desktop connection, which is windows 7 to windows 7. So, I wondered if the reason I can't do that with my...

My old Netgear wireless router died over the weekend. Monday I got a D-Link DIR-615 HW E1 FW 5.00 NA and used the directions, a direct Ethernet connection, and the install CD to configure the router from my Windows 7 computer. I then moved the cable modem and router to a central room so both...

When a program wants to access Internet but there is currently no connection then it seems to trigger the Win7 WLAN/Wifi service to search and auto-connect if possible to perform afterwards the actual task. This auto-search+connect is comfortable for the most cases but sometimes I don't want...

Yes, the title of this post is a palindrome, as a metaphor for the backwards and forwards nature of my problem here. My computer has BSODed every few weeks. And when it restarts, I get told "Problem connecting to the Windows Error Reporting service. Some of the reports could not be uploaded...

Hi guys, Id be so thankful if anyone can help me with this issue because I am stumped. From my ISP I have a Netgear DG834GUv5 DSL Wifi router connecting: My desktop (wired) Win7 32 My lappy (wireless) Win7 64 My housemates 2 mac lappys (wireless) My laptop and desktop are connected via...

I've recently decided to play my music from my computer to my Xbox 360; so I begun to acknowledge that they were both connected accordingly, and establishing a connection. After attempting to play music from the computer and also with Windows Media Center, I found that it did not play my music...

Buetooth issue with WINDOWS 7 I have been doing a lot of research on this issue, and have been unable to come up with a solution. I have a BLUEETOOTH dongle attached to each of my 3 systems. I use BLUETOOTH as my default audio device The sound quality is great. (Far better than that of a...

Win 7 ultimate 64 bit. Sometime ago I had to install ORACLE VIRTUALBOX to do some linux/debain work with UBUNTU. NOW I'm trying to restore my machine. When I uninstall the VIRTUALBOX the network quits working. All the network drivers show up in the device manager. I haven't seen any...

Here is the rundown of the situation: Bought a new HP desktop computer just a few months ago, Geek Squad did their "thing" to it, including installing Webroot Antivirus. About a month ago, contracted a virus --- it was caught by my antivirus, but could not be removed. It prevented my computer...

I am trying to access a network share at my workplace and am unable with the windows 7 machines. With the XP machines I can hit \\x3400 and \\10.10.1.x and accessed shared folders. With Win7 I can hit \\10.10.1.x but \\x3400 gives me the ol' unspecified MS error 0x80004005. Firewalls are...

i have a vaio laptop that is having some weird connection issues. I can't view any websites using any browser (firefox, ie, chrome) unless they're HTTPS connections (tested with https://gmail.com) i tested connecting to an FTP server through the command prompt, and that works, as well as...

This is a weird one... I have W7 x64 Ultimate on 10.10.10.2, connected via a switch to 10.10.10.1, my internet gateway running XP x32 SP3 (etc etc). Both machines are in the same workgroup, etc, and the private connection has NO firewalling at either end. I have uninstalled connection strangling...

I am running Windows 7 professional. The problem is as follows. I need to connect to work through a VPN. While this VPN is active, I want to be able to visit websites and do things that do not run through the VPN. The VPN client is the one provided with Windows 7 that you get to when you go...

Hi - I seem to be having a similar problem that others have with windows 7 -have gone through the usual issues and none have solved it. I have a Dell Optiplex 745 -just did a clean install of Home Premium. Started dropping the internet connection. ipconfig release and renew solves the problem...