-=PCTechTalk=- Re: Fw: Vista network setup
- From: Gman <gman.pctt@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2008 00:52:46 -0400
Both XP and Vista have a Network Setup Wizard as well as a Network
Troubleshooter. I've used the troubleshooter in XP twice and it fixed the
problem on one of those occasions. I don't know exactly where it is on
Vista, but in XP, you just click on the networking icon in the Notification
Area and find it on one of the tabs. I have no idea if it will bring you
any joy, but anything is worth a shot at this point.
Peace,
Gman
"The only dumb questions are the ones we fail to ask"
----- Original Message -----
From: "Don101" <don101@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, September 02, 2008 12:08 AM
Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- Re: Fw: Vista network setup
> Perhaps. I *will* lay the blame on HP for the ignorant tech support
> guy. He obviously had no knowledge of networking or Vista. And the
> way he worked he was not following a script or a logic tree to find
> the problem.
>
> I told him no less than 6 times that the problem was the computer
> network connection was in LOCAL ONLY. And no less than six times I
> asked him how to change that. And no less than six times he failed to
> answer the question.
>
> That said, I looked everywhere in Vista. Literally. Outlook Express
> Internet Options, IE internet options. Network Connections. Internet
> setup wizard. Network this and network that and I searched every
> available help file remotely close to networking or the internet and
> could not find anything anywhere that had anything at all to say about
> the local only setting. NOTHING! That is a Vista and Micro$oft
> screwup. And it was Vista that wanted me to go to online help
> resources. Hello! The problem is a network connection in LOCAL only
> that is stopping me from going online.
>
> Don
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