[bcab] Re: go back to Windows XP?

Hi Tris.

I do have SP3 on the laptop.  The main problem I am having is that when I 
choose to share a connection on the vista machine, I can also choose which 
users I share with.  The problem is I can't seem to find an option to share 
with everyone on my network.  This is certainly the case for files on the C 
drive which contains both data and program files as when my PC arrived the disk 
was not partitioned.  I also have an external hard drive and for this device I 
can choose to share it with everyone.

I can't quite see why this is, though certain parts of the Networking and 
sharing centre in Vista seem not to be that accessible.

Cheers


Graham 
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Tristram Llewellyn 
  To: bcab@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
  Sent: Friday, August 29, 2008 9:50 AM
  Subject: [bcab] Re: go back to Windows XP?


  The only problem I think is you have a laptop, You can Google around and find 
legions of VISTA people trying to go back to XP not always not very 
successfully.  Ripping out a whole operating system would be a somewhat 
disproportionate step to take in resolving networking issues.  If you are 
networking with an XP machine have you got service pack three installed on it, 
it may help as that service pack contained infrastructure to communicate with 
server 2008 which in effect is VISTA..

  Regards.

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  From: bcab-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:bcab-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf 
Of Graham Page
  Sent: Thursday, August 28, 2008 6:02 PM
  To: bcab@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  Subject: [bcab] go back to Windows XP?


  Hi all.

  I have a Dell Inspiron 530 desktop PC.

  I am using it with Vista and, while it works OK, there really does seem to be 
no doubt to me that Vista is not quite as quick as XP in some situations, 
particularly when copying files.  I am also having some difficulty getting 
networking to work correctly.

  I do have a spare copy of Windows XP Home and was wondering about downgrading 
to this, after making sure that all motherboard and other component drivers can 
be downloaded of course.

  This PC has 3 GB of RAM.  I have heard that XP will not recognise this much 
RAM. is this case, and is this situation changed any with the introduction of 
XP Service Pack 3?

  Regards

  Graham
  Graham Page
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