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I have windows vista home premium on my toshiba laptop and the screen brightness is very dull and also i cannot install toshiba power management as its not compatible. I have my power cable plugged in and all but nothing.. thanks

Hello, I have a small question regarding how network mapping in Vista works. I have an HP Laptop with Vista Home Premium installed and have a network between that unit and his old computer running XP SP2 to transfer his personal files. The laptop...

I'm trying to connect my new Vista laptop to my home network so I can share files from my XP machine.If I set my laptop to the same workgroup as home pc it works fine, the only problem is that the laptop is part of my company domain and I...

I cannot successfully copy files from my laptop to my media centre PC (HTPC) across the wireless network.

Both machines are running fresh installs of Vista Home Premium (retail version, not beta).
Network works fine on both PCs, including Internet access and both can 'see' shared folders on each other.

The problem comes when I try to copy files from the laptop to the HTPC (and vice versa). It seems to work fine if I log into the HTPC and copy a file FROM the laptop...this is not what I want - I want to 'send' a file from the laptop to the HTPC. This worked perfectly with XP on the HTPC and Vista on the laptop.

I bought an Acer laptop it has windows Vista basic.Hooked it up to my network here at work and all that went fine.Turned off printer Lexmark X4270, installed drivers and software for it from the Lexmark web site for Vista onto the laptop,also updated drivers on host computer.Restarted the lap top and turned on the printer.It can see the printer(says its available) but when I try to print a test page it tells me it is sending page to the printer then I get communication is not available.If I disconnect the usb connection on the printer the printer available greys out on the printer window in Vista.I can print from the host computer.Host computer is Win XP pro.Router is a LinkSys wireless G broadband.Printer to host computer is usb cable,host to router is network cable,Acer laptop to router is network cable.Printer is only usb capable no network connection.All other communication on the network is fine file sharing,internet etc...I have restarted laptop printer and host computer numerous times no change.