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Hi, Getting an error when trying to connect to a network drive 'An error occured while re-connecting.No more connections can be made to this remote computer at this time because there are already as many connections as the computer can accept' Now this has been setup with a local folder on...

Can someone help me with a little problem I am having trying to get my homegroup setup on my main computer? From my understanding it is pretty simple (apparently not for me). I'm not getting the "join now" page when I go the homegroup in control panel. This is the only page I keep getting...

Web sync and sharing sneak in Microsoft could be taking a chance by making Windows 8 look more like Office 2007, if some leaked screenshots are the real deal.… Source: Yahoo! News

I have a HP Laserjet 1010 USBconnected to my Win7computer. Got that working with Vista drivers for Laserjet 1015, since there is no drivers for win7. Now i´m trying to connect my laptop with XP to it using my home network. I have no problem finding or connecting to the printer or computers on...

Hi there. I was previously running Windows Vista and have recently upgraded to Windows 7. Previously I mapped a network drive wirelessly to a network media player with a hard drive, and shared video/music wirelessly with my Playstation 3. Immediately following the upgrade, everything was still...

I have been through multiple forums and tried everything I can think of to fix this problem. I am setting up a new home network with 4 computers (3 laptops and 1 desktop). 2 Laptops are running Windows Vista connecting via wireless, 1 laptop running Windows 7 connecting via wireless, and the...

Hi :), I'm having a real hard time networking two Windows 7 computers properly. I have the main computer running Win 7 Ultimate 64bit and the second one is Win 7 home premium 64bit. I have two nic cards in the main computer. One hooked up to a cable modem and one hooked up to a router. The...

Hi dears. I have a small problem with my network and sharing center. The problem is that it takes maybe more than 2 minutes to open it. I mean when i click on Network and Sharing center in the control panel or i click on the network icon in my task bar, it takes minutes!! to open. I was told it...

I want to share media files with my roommates. I can set up the sharing permissions easily enough. However, I want to be able to share other folders on my computer so that I can access them from my netbook. I don't want my friends accessing these folders though. Is there a way I can password...

Hello, I have my xbox 360 conected to the internet throught a internnet sharing connection on my pc, ive been told that if I bridge them instead it will be a faster connection. So i did but now i have no connection to the internet on either my xbox n'or my pc. I have no idea how to fix this...

Help, PLEASE! I work in a small business office and my computer is the main one everyone else is networked to. Had XP but I have a new computer now with Windows 7 and I am having trouble getting the network operating so that people can print to my printer. Everyone can get online, but not able...

This laptop can access the internet and ping itself and the gateway, but can't ping other computers on the network. I am not using "HomeGroup" nor do I wish to. I had VMWare Workstation 7 and Comodo Internet Security 5 installed, but have since uninstalled them. I have the windows firewall...

Microsoft is in the process of merging all Windows Office Live Workspace accounts to Windows Live SkyDrve. Windows Live SkyDrive is a cloud computing storage center for documents and other files, similar to Windows Office Live Workspace. This migration will apparently take place for most Windows...

My Win 7 pro laptop can see (and show in the network & sharing window) all the computers in the local private subnet but not others (ie., in the DMZ). I am logged in using an account with domain admin rights and I am able to find the other computers on the network via the "search Active...

Recently, when I noticed that the wireless manager in the system tray seemed to be stuck on 'connecting to a network', when there's a blue spinning circle next to the hollow signal bars. Confused, since I was already surfing the internet, I tried to access the Network and Sharing Center via...

I want to add additional icons to the 'system32\pnidui.dll' file. That's where you pick which icon you want to represent the active named network in the Network And Sharing Center. I did a search in this forum on 'network icons' but didn't find anything. Aside from all the permissions...

I have a Sony Vaio VPCEB26FG laptop, Ipod Touch 8GB. I have connected the ethernet port to an internet connection with a dynamic IP. I have done the Ad-hoc connection so that laptop acts as a Wi-fi hotspot, and i can connect the Ipod to this hotspot through Wi-Fi. I am able to connect the...

I think that this would be nice! Post a snapshot of your desktop, DO NOT CHANGE ANYTHING, just leave it the way it is RIGHT NOW :D Here is mine (it's been "untouched" since 3.6.2010) ~Brz

Hi, I used to be a windows user but switched over to ubuntu for some time now. So, im a bit rusty on windows knowledge. Anyway, a friend who has a windows 7 laptop and a windows vista desktop asked me to help him share his usb mobile broadband connection. I obliged but its been two days now and...

This issue seems a little weird. I have a desktop and a laptop at home running windows 7. They can both see each other, and share files freely, over the network. When I start a homegroup on the desktop, the wizard stops at the Caution symbol screen where it declares it's "currently sharing...