network sharing

Hi, I'm using a PC running Windows 7 Ultimate x64. My router is a wired one, and I wanted to have internet access on my phone when I'm at home. So I bought a wi-fi USB dongle to share internet. After I create an Ad Hoc network, I don't get the "Share this internet connection" page, the wizard...

Hi All... Hoping that someone can help with this problem that started for me yesterday..!! All AM time I was logged in and surfing the internet going to all the usual pages Etc.. Lunch time comes, so I decide to go downstairs and eat and so, while making lunch I decided that my laptop needeed...

Hi All, I have a 5 month old Dell Inspiron 1564 with a Dell WLAN 1397 Wireless card. I was having some trouble connecting to my wireless router, and as a last attempt to get it working, I uninstalled and reinstalled the driver for my wireless card, using a fresh download of the latest version...

Hello all, I have 3 Windows 7 computers set up with a home group. I started by putting all the photos into the Public Pictures folder on one of them so that all pictures for the family would be in one place. This worked great - anybody could add pictures and everyone could see them...

In Windows 7 (home premium) I can't figure out how to share a folder with one computer on the network (as opposed to all the computers or the entire homegroup. First, I've turned off password protected sharing. When I try to share with specific people all I get in the local computer users...

So I've been bugging around the net all day long for a solution and trying to figured it out my self, but I couldn't. I've reinstalled My Windwos 7 Ultimate x32 and went on a fresh copy of Windows 7 ultimate x64... and that's when it stared. After that I've tried Windows 7 Pro x32,x64 and again...

An issue of a friend, who just bought a brand new Gateway NV5378u which had Windows 7 pre-installed. When he first turned it on, the Internet did not connect. We later found out it was an issue with the router, which is on the compatibility list but was not, for some reason, being compatible...

Hi there Ever since I installed VirtualBox on my windows 7, I have been having some connectivity issues with my internet. Like I said on the title, my internet is taking forever to connect. I have even tried leaving it for half an hour and it would still be "connecting" when I return. However...

I have a wireless network connecting 3 computers. 1 is running W7 home premium, 1 XP home and one XP pro. The W7 machine detects the network but will not connect automatically. The tick boxes on the Connections tab on the network properties box are not present while running as a limited user or...

Ok I am just about going out of my mind with this one. I have a DNS 323 NAS device connected directly to my laptop with static IP's and a crossover cable (removed it from my network for troubleshooting simplicity). I am running Windows 7 Pro. I can access the web interface of this device, ping...

PROBLEM : Network shares created on Windows 7 and being accessed by Windows XP workstation are lost after a certain amout of time. XP never be able to access Share made on 7 until 7 is rebooted. You can still ping 7 from XP. WHAT I FOUND : Default configuration of Windows 7 (and...

I am pulling my hair out trying to get a few things sorted out with my home setup. I have media pc running windows 7 ultimate. But trying to stream AVI files over Cat6 cable to my local network to my media player [zensonic/ziova z500] just doesnt work, I can see the folders but not the...

Hello, thanks for reading this, I'm sharing somes folder located on my Windows 7 Ultimate 64 for other workstation (XP and Vista). I made every step and everything is working very well for a couple of hours (4 to 6 hours), after that, the connection seems to be lost between XP and Windows...

Connectify.me is a new service we just found out about. They've sussed out how to make any Windows 7 computer into a WiFi hotspot. Since we just installed Windows 7 on a spare laptop, we figured it was about time to make Windows do something cool, so we installed the app. We were quite...

Hey I've got a Telstra ZTE MF626 (Link Removed due to 404 Error) and I want to make 4 Windows 7 Laptops connect to it. I am planning on using an Ad-hoc network and just have the stick in one computer. 3 of the 4 laptops are actually netbooks but I don't think that would matter. So. what I want...

Hi, my WIndows 7 desktop host gets a blue screen of death whenever i use internet connection sharing on my laptop. I've attached two small memory dumps and a kernel memory dump. This doesnt seem to happen if the desktop uses the 64-bit version but i'm missing some drivers so i'd rather find...

Yesterday, Microsoft started the announcements about Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1. The one thing that struck me was the fact that Windows 7 will only get some minor updates and bug fixes from the Service Pack. Even though Windows 7 is sweet and looks very good from the beginning, I...

I have two computers on my network. Both use Windows 7-64 and both have Homegroups enabled with all the file types enabled (video, printers, etc). My problem is that I get an error message when I try to connect to any subdirectory under the users name (on the other computer). I can see the file...

Hi there, been troubleshooting that damn Windows 7 for a while, and I thought you might have some ideas here. I have installed Openvpn with the admin rights. When launched with user rights, it connects but cannot establish routes (command requires admin), therefore no traffic is routed...

I have XP SP2, Vista, and one 7 system in a local home network. Our family music server is an XP SP2 machine with share for MP3's and a share for other media content. The other XP machines can see and access MUSICSERV, the Vista machines can see and use MUSICSERV, however my Windows 7 system...