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"photoshopper" <photoshopper@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Chuck and Carey, thank you for your kind offers of assistance. I will
> follow
> up again when I have some time. I blew a whole day on this yesterday,
> trying
> everything I could find, checking various forums, trying every
> troubleshooter, thinking that the solution was just around the corner.
> I'm
> tempted to keep at it today, but I am a one-person business and there are
> projects to finish, deadlines to meet. I've lost so much productivity
> thanks
> to ... well, I'm still not sure where the problem lies (Linksys, Windows,
> Dell, ...?). I'm just so steamed about it and, yes, I'm venting. I
> should
> have hired an expert to do this. My friends in the Mac world don't seem
> to
> have these problems. The money I've saved by buying Windows machines,
> I've
> more than lost by all of the down time of trying to get them to work
> properly. (One formerly fast PC purchase this year has become snail slow,
> despite having 2 gigs of RAM and many gigs of hard drive space and being
> defragmented, checked for spyware and adware, etc., and the sound no
> longer
> works.) I can't turn off the Windows Firewall because there's some
> problem
> with the WMI, and System Restore doesn't help, and doing a repair
> reinstall
> of Windows XP doesn't help. These computers are such a time-drain!
>
> "Chuck" wrote:
>
>> On Mon, 22 Nov 2004 20:55:06 -0800, photoshopper
>> <photoshopper@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
>>
>> >I spent about 12 hours today trying to wirelessly network my 3 Dell
>> >Windows
>> >XP computers -- without success. I got to the point where they can all
>> >(usually) access the internet through the Linksys wireless router, but
>> >they
>> >still don't see each other on the network. I've searched this forum
>> >repeatedly and tried many things, but haven't been able to isolate the
>> >problem. I'm fairly tech savvy and have been using PCs for some 20
>> >years.
>> >I'm now so frustrated with PCs that I will be looking into buying
>> >several
>> >Apple Macs next year.
>>
>> This is not the best forum for help with Windows XP networking issues -
>> you
>> probably want to get help in microsoft.public.windowsxp.networking_web.
>> Also,
>> looking for help from previous posts may not always be the best
>> procedure -
>> individual help, given openly in the forum, is probably your best hope.
>>
>> For help here, please start by providing ipconfig information for each
>> computer.
>> Start - Run - "cmd". Type "ipconfig /all >c:\ipconfig.txt" into the
>> command
>> window - Open c:\ipconfig.txt in Notepad, make sure that Format - Word
>> Wrap is
>> NOT checked!, copy and paste into your next post. Identify operating
>> system (by
>> name, version, and SP level) with each ipconfig listing.
>>
>> --
>> Cheers,
>> Chuck
>> Paranoia comes from experience - and is not necessarily a bad thing.
>>
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