windows 7 starter ICS for ethernet

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First I would like to say I know ICS is disabled in win7 starter, aside from adhoc, but what I need isn't a adhoc network.

I recently build a new gaming machine and until more spare cash comes along (in the next few months) I'm stuck without a wireless card in the machine. My router is too far away, so a direct connection is a no go, so I have been using my laptop to share my wifi over Ethernet in order to get it online. The problem is that I have better things for my laptop to be doing that to be an expensive router, so I want to use a older netbook I have that has windows 7 starter on it.

Does anyone know of a way I can share my netbooks wifi, over Ethernet, with my desktop? I'm open to using third party software (free of course) if anyone knows of any good ones.

I have searched high and low, but I have not found anything that will work for my needs that's also free. I'm almost positive I did it awhile ago for my BR player when I was messing around with its online features (that is, use my netbook to share its wifi), but I cannot for the life of me remember how I did it.
 
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One laptop, 2 netbooks with broken screens that I rescued from family that were going to toss them out and a new gaming machine that's taken me 2 month's to buy enough of the pieces just to get it up and running.. and will take me another 2-3 before I can get a GPU, new hard drive (using a old 80gb one I had), wifi card, and not to mention actual case fans and a real fan for my CPU so I don't need to keep using the stock one that came with my core i5-3570k (I literally have the case open and a box fan blowing on it).

Satisfied?

But, just incase you really wanted to know... I'm not going to buy a $15 usb dongle, even though I could, when I have a perfectly good netbook doing nothing that could get the job done until I can afford a wifi card. Waste not, want not.
 
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Windows 7 Starter is not "a perfectly good netbook". It is cheap for a reason - feature limited.
You could probably leverage a Linux distro into doing that. Windows 7 Starter? Highly doubtful..
 
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In your opinion, perhaps. The hardware is perfectly suited for the task I desire though. But seriously, if all you want to do is be a smarta** then why not take it elsewhere? It's uncalled for.
 
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The hardware is probably fine! The existing OS (Windows 7 Starter), not so much. If you don't want to spend any money (usually a good idea), then a Linux distro will probably do it, if you can leverage the correct drivers.
Not trying to be a smartass. Mostly.
 
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@USAFRet

I agree the OS is limited, but that's why I'm searching for idea's on how to make it work for my desires. I have been using the netbook, off and on, as a makeshift server for my digital content (music and video's mostly) and it's worked great for that, so I don't want to get rid of the OS or even attempt to put Linux on it (I know what a nightmare that can be, even if the hardware won't make it slow as heck).

Honestly, I'm using Ubuntu on my laptop right now because I moved my Win8 Pro license onto my new desktop, and it's not running too snappy on that, so I'm in no rush to try and put Linux (even knowing there are other distro's) on hardware that has even less power (not to mention even less compatible probably). So I'm trying to make it work with what I got without making it into a big project.

I'm trying to reuse whatever I can to save me some cash, even if it might not be the most elegant of solutions.
 
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I pretty much assumed that already from all my research and tinkering, but I was hoping someone might know of some software that will do it for me. I know Connectify can do it, but only in the Pro version.
 
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