internet connectivity

Today i went to bestbuy and bought my parents a new Hp p6230y desktop. I got home and started up the computer and everthing went as normal. After all the updates and the computer was setup, i browsed the internet and it was fine. As soon as i installed Norton Internet Security 2010, the internet...

i recently bought a sony vaio laptop with windows 7 pre installed, i can connect to unsecured networks easily and browse the web, i can also use an ethernet cable and browse the web but when i try to browse using a secured network wirelessly i get this message on every page i try to visit! The...

well the problem is exactly what topic says, ever since i first installed this build my network has been unidentified. at first i never bothered to care since i could connect to the internet. but as time went on i would turn my pc on and notice that the unidentified network which allowed me...

Hi All. This is the issue i'm having with W7 as a server... - connection to internet is fine for all clients - pinging outside world also works great - sharing is fine - i can not ping server by it's external IP from a PC on local network behind this server. But users on internet can ping my...

I've just recieved a new network card, because my old (integrated) card was intermitently disapearing and had to be re-installed. I decied to install the Windows 7 RC before I installed the new card. The card installed OK with Windows 7 drivers, but it will not connect to my router correctly...

I can connect to the internet just fine, but when I open up my "Network" in windows 7 I can only see my own computer. Nothing else. I know there is a win xp machine on the network which can access the internet as well. I'm completely new to the whole networking thing. I know when I ran Win XP I...

Hi, I recently bought a new laptop Newegg.com - MSI GX630-028US NoteBook AMD Athlon X2 QL-62(2.00GHz) 15.4" Wide XGA 4GB Memory 250GB HDD DVD Super Multi NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT - Laptops / Notebooks with Windows Vista Home Premium already installed. The wireless card has been great but I have...

So, this has absolutely dumbfounded me. I cannot get file sharing or homegroups to work at all, no matter what i try. I have two computers, a desktop HTPC and a laptop. Both are connected by cat-5e. Both are Windows 7 RC. Both enjoy full internet connectivity with all programs and all...

Hello everyone. This is my first post and I just wanted to say hello and thank everyone in advance for their help. Getting down to the problem. I have been using Windows 7 beta since the public launch from build 7000 to my current 7077 x64 with no problems what so ever. About 2 weeks ago...

Hi, I am currently dual booting windows 7 and ubuntu intrepid. Everything was working fine until I attempted to install the cisco VPN (vista version) the computer froze during the installation so i had to to a hard reboot. After rebooting I get an a message saying that the computer was not...

Hello. I am trying to join this Windows 7 machine to a domain run on a Windows Server 2003 SBS install. There are several other computers running Vista, XP and various distributions of Linux which have no problems whatsoever, so I know the issue must lie with Windows 7 itself. I am running the...