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    Windows 7 Can't enable wireless adapter

    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...
  2. Windows 7 Tunnel Adapters

    After a few days of struggling with my laptops wireless internet. As it keeps disconnecting and reconnecting as I troubleshoot and look for solutions. I've come across while using ipconfig /all in command prompt I get 52 Tunnel adapters, all of which say Media disconnected. I do have my IPv6...
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    Windows 7 Unidentified Network problem with WPA2

    Hello. I have a MSI wind Notebook 100U (Realtek wireless card) that connects perfectly in my WEP home network. It also connects nice with others WEP networks and with most cabled network. I had installed Windows 7 three month ago. When it ran Windows XP I had no problems to connect with WPA...
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    Windows Vista Every 5min-2hrs or so, internet just stops working. Only reboot fixes it.

    Link Removed Above is my system specs/ZoneAlarm Specs/CMD prompt error (i think) which can also be viewed at Link Removed Just installed Windows 7 x64 on this: Acer Aspire - X1200-U1510A - 4 GB RAM - 2.6 GHz - 320 GB HDD Anyways, problem is after 5+ mins, (usually within 2hrs) of turning my...
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    Windows 7 Slow File Transfer Over Network (Windows 7 to Windows 7)

    I tried to copy a movie from one IDENTICAL Win7 laptop to another via the network. Everything connected great, but once I began to copy the files and saw the transfer speed my jaw dropped. I maxed out at 2.5mbs and it dropped down to 1.5mbs. No difference having it plugged into the network or...
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    Windows 7 Public Wi-fi: connected but locked-out

    Hi All Hope soneone can assist with a problem that is driving me nuts. I automatically connect fine at home either by cable or wi-fi. The problem is when I am out using a public wi-fi (or even cable if in a hotel). I can connect. But what I cannot access is the public isp's registration...
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    Windows 7 Can't search my home server

    I am having trouble searching for files on my Windows Home Server using Win 7 Clients. In Windows explorer, when you enter a name to be searched in the search bar (at the end of the address bar), nothing is shown - it does appear to be searching as the address bar gradually turns green, but...
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    Windows 7 Problems joining a domain with Win 7 to Win SBS 2003

    :(The Following error occured while attempting to join the Domain "An attempt to resolve the DNS name of a domain controller in the domain being joined has failed. Please verify this client is configured to reach a DNS server that can resolve DNS names in the target domain. For information...
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    Windows 7 Windows 7 & SBS 2003

    Hi, I really cannot understand this and could do with some help. Connectivity between SBS 2003 Server and Windows 7 Workstation is a problem, works and then does notw work. At a basic level ICMP a ping between does not work, request timed out. If I ping another Machine on Network form...
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    Windows 7 "Name Resolution Timed Out."

    I'm getting this error in my event log every so often as my network connection crashes. Name resolution for the name <www.XXX.com> timed out after none of the configured DNS servers responded. I have to reset my network card (disable and then enable in Device Manager) in order to get a...
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    Windows 7 local area network doesn't have a valid ip configuration

    I recently upgraded a Dell XPS Gen 2 M170 from Vista to Win7 Ultimate. Everything went fine except the Broadcom NIC was not recognized. I was able to get it installed using XP drivers in compatibility mode. Now whats driving me nuts is that when I try to connect to the internet, I get this...
  12. Windows 7 unidentified Network ??

    Hi there. I have a dual LAN on my motherboard and windows 7 installed. No.1 is connected to the internet and no.2 is my LAN. I connect a second computer with windows 7 to the LAN with crossed Ethernet cable. I have internet connection and file sharing on both computers, however the host computer...
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    Windows Vista Sharing internet connection...help!

    So, i have a usb network device, installed it, got the driver working, got zydas working (the software), and then i set the usb dongle as an access point. I press on my current connection, and do "allow other people to access the internet through this computers connection" , but whenever i try...
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    Windows 7 homegroup and public locations

    I have a homegroup set up for Computer1. Computer2 is on domain so it can only connection to Computer1's homegroup and not create it's own. That is fine Computer2 is able to join the homegroup and see the shared files. It can't however see the files in Computer1's libraries that are located...
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    Windows 7 Win 7 Build 7100 Unidentified Netowork?

    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...
  16. Windows 7 I can't access to shared folder

    Hello, how are you?. I am having this problem. I have three computers (pc01, pc02, pc03 -wireless-) connected with a router and I can't access from pc01 to the other computers because "Windows cannot access to \\XX - 0x80070043: The network name cannot be found.", but I can access to this...
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    Windows 7 inactive network false positive

    I've noticed over the past few days that my icon for network indicates No Network Available with the warning sign, but I am still connected to the internet and able to function perfectly. Seems odd to me since the other day it was actually not functioning and I had to fix it by using the...
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    Windows 7 unidentified network local only (RC)

    I cannot connect to the internet. Network and Connection Sharing shows my home network and an Unidentified network and both are local only. This started on my other computer with a Realtek network adapter (can't remember the model). After 2 updates last night, my computer (different) showed the...
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    Windows 7 W7 Build 7057 Network Disconnects Every 5-30 min

    Hey, have this horrible problem here that is driving me absolutely insane. While using build 7000 i did not have this problem but when i upgraded to build 7057 i noticed it right away. I seem to lose connectivity to the router every 5-30 min. I lose connection to the internet and network and the...
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    Windows 7 "Could not reconnect all network drives" Problem

    Hello all: I've found several others having the same problem as I on this and other forums but no answer yet. I have a home network that includes an XP-based home server of sorts. I hang my Drobo off that server and share it to my home Network. On all my other PC's I access it as my "N" drive...