Windows XP lovers/defenders, please explain...
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RE: Windows XP lovers/defenders, please explain...
Hard to tell what the real problem is
but you might try this freeware program (with a 7 day trial of the paid)
loaded onto each of the three troublesome network members:
http://www.networkmagic.com/download/
as its screens, graphs and help suggestions
are usually clearer than the Microsoft equivalents
but you might try this freeware program (with a 7 day trial of the paid)
loaded onto each of the three troublesome network members:
http://www.networkmagic.com/download/
as its screens, graphs and help suggestions
are usually clearer than the Microsoft equivalents
RE: Windows XP lovers/defenders, please explain...
ORIGINAL: BadStratRT
sounds like a mixture of dell quality and user error to me.
next time you need a new computer, rather than flushing your money away to dell, why not just paypal me that money, and ill send you a laptop that is already broken, so you wont have to wait for the dell quality to kick in. i tell ya what, ill give you a discount. paypal me half of what dell charged, and ill send you a laptop that works most of the time...youll be ahead of the game.
does dell run satellite TV too?
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sounds like a mixture of dell quality and user error to me.
next time you need a new computer, rather than flushing your money away to dell, why not just paypal me that money, and ill send you a laptop that is already broken, so you wont have to wait for the dell quality to kick in. i tell ya what, ill give you a discount. paypal me half of what dell charged, and ill send you a laptop that works most of the time...youll be ahead of the game.
does dell run satellite TV too?
[8D]
i hate dell
anyways i know alot about windows, but minimal when it comes to networking so i cant help you much. but i do wish u best of luck pgh.
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RE: Windows XP lovers/defenders, please explain...
Yeah, its cause its dell...computers don't all run the same drivers and have the same internal parts.
http://64.233.169.104/search?q=cache...cd=1&gl=us
There's someone that doesn't have a dell, had the same problem. It is a WINDOWS issue. I could have the most expensive laptop EVER, but if it had windows, it would have had the same problem. Plus i complicate issues with having a VPN, etc.
"...one of the parameters that may *optionally* be set by *some* DHCP servers[/b] in your registry is "DhcpNodeType" and that this parameter once set will persist in the computer's registry. Since not all DHCP servers[/b] set this parameter, when the machine is moved to another network, like the typical small office or home office (SOHO) network, that network's DHCP server probably does not change the parameter and the machine fails to join the workgroup[/b] and gives the error message. This is because the typical SOHO network is set up using the default "broadcast" node types and the persisting DhcpNodeType parameter continues to tell the malfunctioning machine to be a "point-to-point" node type. The two types do not talk to each other."
Windows, not Dell.
BTW, one of the computers wasn't a Dell.
http://64.233.169.104/search?q=cache...cd=1&gl=us
There's someone that doesn't have a dell, had the same problem. It is a WINDOWS issue. I could have the most expensive laptop EVER, but if it had windows, it would have had the same problem. Plus i complicate issues with having a VPN, etc.
"...one of the parameters that may *optionally* be set by *some* DHCP servers[/b] in your registry is "DhcpNodeType" and that this parameter once set will persist in the computer's registry. Since not all DHCP servers[/b] set this parameter, when the machine is moved to another network, like the typical small office or home office (SOHO) network, that network's DHCP server probably does not change the parameter and the machine fails to join the workgroup[/b] and gives the error message. This is because the typical SOHO network is set up using the default "broadcast" node types and the persisting DhcpNodeType parameter continues to tell the malfunctioning machine to be a "point-to-point" node type. The two types do not talk to each other."
Windows, not Dell.
BTW, one of the computers wasn't a Dell.
RE: Windows XP lovers/defenders, please explain...
lol ... NT was *OK* so was 2000 ... XP is the most stable Microsoft OS since DOS. I am still a Windows XP fan ... we use it on all of our workstations at work and I still use it on all of my computers at home. Vista is absolute garbage and I am fighting as hard as I can to keep it off of my network.
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RE: Windows XP lovers/defenders, please explain...
I don't understand why everyone hates Vista so much. I have it and I love it. From what Derrick says, the new service pack fixes most of the issues and makes it run quite a bit faster.
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RE: Windows XP lovers/defenders, please explain...
ive not dealt with vista yet, and i have no plan to anytime soon...i have heard people say that its fine, its fixed, whatever...but i head FAR more people online complain about it than I hear people praising it.